Blue
Origin’s
New
Glenn
rocket
hit
a
significant
milestone
this
week,
completing
its
first
second-stage
hot
fire
test
that
validates
the
interactions
between
the
subsystems,
its
two
BE-3U
engines,
and
the
ground
control
systems.
The
test
lasted
for
15
seconds
and
allowed
the
launch
operations
team
to
practice
launch
procedures
in
the
lead-up
to
New
Glenn’s
planned
November
launch.
New
Glenn
is
Blue
Origin’s
big
rocket
answer
to
SpaceX
when
it
comes
to
shooting
things
into
space,
but
Jeff
Bezos’
company
has
been
moving
slowly
and
has
only
so
far
conducted
tourist
flights
to
suborbital
space
using
its
New
Shepard
rocket.
New
Glenn
was
supposed
to
launch
the
smallsat
ESCAPADE
in
conjunction
with
NASA
this
year
as
its
first
mission,
but
it
was
recently
canceled.
Now,
New
Glenn’s
first
mission
(NG-1)
will
be
to
carry
the
company’s
new
Blue
Ring
orbital
platform
into
space.
Blue
Origin
plans
to
launch
that
mission
from
Cape
Canaveral,
Florida,
this
November.
(Originally posted by Umar Shakir)
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