Tag: United Launch Alliance
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ULA and Blue Origin unveil BE-4 rocket engine
Today United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Blue Origin announced a new liquid oxygen, liquefied natural gas (LNG) rocket engine that delivers 550,000-lbf of thrust at sea level. The engine has been in development at Blue Origin for three years and a pair of them will be integrated into the Atlas rocket in appropriately three/four years. The…
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ULA completes second launch in a week from Cape Canaveral
This evening a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS IIF satellite. This was the second launch this week for ULA making it the fastest turn around for launches at the cape. At the time of writing the spacecraft was still in it’s coast phase, once complete…