New Glenn, which has been in development since 2013, uses BE-4 engines on its first stage as well. The rocket is expected ... NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE ...

The original plan was to have launched NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers ... The first stage of the 98-meter (320-foot) tall rocket is powered by seven BE-4 ...

Jeff Bezos’s commercial space company Blue Origin wrote itself into the history books on 16 January, with the successful ...

While most “flyable” spacecraft also rely on rocket power to maneuver in space ... simulations used to examine the behavior of electrons within the EP engine’s plasma beams. Unlike typical simulations ...

The Titans spaceplanes are designed for high-frequency operations, with the capability to launch spacecraft, cargo, and ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

Perhaps the weirdest-looking Boeing 747 on this list is the YAL-1. Rather than being acquired from an airline, YAL-1 was ...

The rocket stands over 320 feet (98 meters) high, shorter than NASA's Saturn V and SpaceX's Starship. Seven BE-4 engines power the first stage ... The plan had been to launch NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape ...

The newly tested engines could power a variety of space projects.

According to the Blue Origin website, the engines of the Blue Origin New Glenn reusable rocket were made in Kent, Wash. and Huntsville, Ala. The engines are the BE-3PM, BE-3U, BE-4 and BE-7. Each ...

Since then all the advances have been in making rockets larger and more efficient through innovations peripheral to the rocket engine itself. There are alternatives to chemical rockets ...