Disaster! BE-4 Failure...

Disaster! BE-4 Failure...

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Disaster! BE-4 Failure...
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The billionaire Jeff Bezos is no stranger to success. He controls Amazon, the biggest online commerce store ever known to man, which he founded. Of course, he stepped down from the role of CEO later last year but he has been doing so as the third richest man on earth. Bezos also has a media empire with his ownership of The Washington Post.
Coming down to Blue Origin, a commercial space flight company the billionaire founded in 2000, success is not completely unheard of there either. The company is on record to have successfully landed its New Shepard rocket vertically after it returned from space, that is, the rocket landed upright on its legs. The boosters were even reused.
Pretty cool achievement!
Sadly, that’s all Blue Origin can boast of, despite the backing of its billionaire founder.
The most remarkable is his rocket engine, BE-4 is a horrendous failure compared to SpaceX Raptor!
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Following Aerojet’s acquisition of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in 2012, Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson saw an opportunity to fill a gap in the defense industrial base. Blue Origin publicly entered the liquid rocket engine business by partnering with ULA on the development of the BE-4 and working with other companies to replace Russia's RD-180.
Unfortunately, it turns out that this opportunity is not easily achieved. On the contrary, it has become the grave for Blue Origin.

The company began work on the BE-4 in 2011, although no public announcement was made until September 2014. This was their first engine to combust liquid oxygen and liquified natural gas propellants. In September 2014—in a choice labeled "a stunner" by SpaceNews—the large launch vehicle manufacturer and launch service provider United Launch Alliance selected the BE-4 as the main engine for a new primary launch vehicle. Blue Origin said the "BE-4 would be 'ready for flight' by 2017."
However, until now, you can see, Blue Origin still has not delivered the engine to ULA.

Yeah, the rocket industry is really a difficult stuff but can't be justified because of this.
Disaster! BE-4 Failure...