Origin 8.0 Engine

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Aperfect, small-footprint powerhouse for forestry, mobile equipment, power generation and other applications. A revolutionary design encompassing the latest technology in engine material and design:

Origin Engines are specifically engineered for industrial use. EPA Certified industrial engines that run on gasoline, natural gas or propane. Origin manufactured industrial engines in 3.6L, 4.3L, 5.7L, 6.2L, 6.6L, 8.0L, 9.1L, 10.3L, 15.9L, 19.9L, and 23.9L platforms. With Origin Engines, you get the highly engineered industrial engines you demand, configured the way you want them, with an assurance you can build a business plan around.

This line-up of big block, EPA certified propane or natural gas spark-ignited engines rivals the performance and reliability of diesel equipment. All three have the same exterior dimensions and same footprint. That means you can match horsepower to meet your demand without investing time and money

in redesigning your engine package.

Operationally reusable rockets demand high performance engines capable of deep throttling for soft landings. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security and human spaceflight.

Each BE-4 engine provides 550,000 pounds of thrust and has completed an extensive development program. This state-of-the-art engine will end reliance on Russian engines and power a new generation of U.S. launch vehicles. Dozens of these engines are now in production to support a large and growing demand for civil, commercial, and defense launches.

"No personnel were injured, and we are currently assessing root cause," Blue Origin representatives said, according to Sheetz. Investigators have already determined the proximate cause of the anomaly "and are working on remedial actions," the statement added.

The BE-4 has already been qualified for flight, meaning its overall design is sound, ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno stressed via Twitter on Tuesday. The engine that failed on June 30 was undergoing an "acceptance test" (APT), which looks for issues with individual units before flight. (There are other steps along this path as well, including "hot fire" tests of fully integrated engines on the launch pad.)

ULA has been dealing with issues of its own on Vulcan Centaur. The heavy lifter was supposed to debut in early May, on a mission that will send the private Peregrine lander toward the moon. But that target date was pushed back after a Centaur upper stage exploded during testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on March 29.

It's unclear when the new rocket will get off the ground. Late last month, the company said it would destack the first Vulcan Centaur and send the upper stage back to its factory in Alabama for modifications.

New Glenn, the other big rocket that the BE-4 will power, also has yet to fly. Its debut was originally targeted for 2020, but delays in the BE-4's development have pushed that timeline to the right repeatedly. Blue Origin has recently declined to provide a new target date, as Sheetz noted.

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The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4)[4] is an oxygen-rich[5] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding.[6] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf) of thrust at sea level.[7]

It was initially planned for the engine to be used exclusively on a Blue Origin proprietary launch vehicle New Glenn, the company's first orbital rocket. However, it was announced in 2014 that the engine would also be used on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, the successor to the Atlas V launch vehicle.[8] Final engine selection by ULA happened in September 2018.[9]

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.[10] 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. Meyerson announced the selection of Huntsville, AL as the location of Blue Origin's rocket production factory in June 2017.[11]

By April 2015, two parallel development programs were under way. One program was testing full-scale versions of the BE-4 powerpack, which are the set of valves and turbopumps that provide the proper fuel/oxidizer mix to the injectors and combustion chamber. The second program was testing subscale versions of the engine's injectors.[15] The company planned to begin full-scale engine testing in late 2016 and expected to complete development of the engine in 2017.[15]

By September 2015, Blue Origin had completed more than 100 development tests of several elements of the BE-4, including the preburner and a "regeneratively cooled thrust chamber using multiple full-scale injector elements". The tests were used to confirm the theoretical model predictions of "injector performance, heat transfer, and combustion stability", and data collected was being used to refine the engine design.[16] There was an explosion on the test stand during 2015 during powerpack testing. Blue Origin built two larger and redundant test stands to follow, capable of testing the full thrust of the BE-4.[17]

In January 2016, Blue Origin announced that they intended to begin testing full engines of the BE-4 on ground test stands prior to the end of 2016.[18] Following a factory tour in March 2016, journalist Eric Berger noted that a large part of "Blue Origin's factory has been given over to development of the Blue Engine-4".[8]

Initially, both first-stage and second-stage versions of the engine were planned. The second stage of the initial New Glenn design was to have shared the same stage diameter as the first stage and use a single vacuum-optimized BE-4, the BE-4U.[19] In the event, they backed away from this plan.

The first engine was fully assembled in March 2017.[20][non-primary source needed] Also in March, United Launch Alliance indicated that the economic risk of the Blue Origin engine selection option had been retired, but that the technical risk on the project would remain until a series of engine firing tests were completed later in 2017.[21] A test anomaly occurred on 13 May 2017, and Blue Origin reported that they lost a set of powerpack hardware.[22]

The BE-4 was first test-fired, at 50% thrust for 3 seconds, in October 2017.[24] By March 2018, the BE-4 engine had been tested at 65% of design thrust for 114 seconds[25] with a goal expressed in May to achieve 70% of design thrust in the next several months.[26][non-primary source needed] By September 2018, multiple hundreds of seconds of engine testing had been completed, including one test of over 200 seconds duration.[27]

In October 2018, Blue Origin President Bob Smith announced that the first launch of the New Glenn had been moved back to 2021,[28] and in 2021 an additional slip to late 2022 was announced.[29] This caused the first flight test of the BE-4 to be scheduled for the initial Vulcan Centaur launch rather than on New Glenn.

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