Blue Origin completes BE-7 Flight Engine 3 hotfire testing
The engine verified performance before flight and heads to Lunar Plant 1 for the lunar lander fleet.
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In short: Blue Origin worked to recover from a major New Glenn launchpad explosion while securing significant NASA contracts for lunar base infrastructure.
The engine verified performance before flight and heads to Lunar Plant 1 for the lunar lander fleet.
It schedules for April 19, 2026, from LC-36, deploying AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite to low Earth orbit.
The scalable system extracts oxygen from the Moon for propellant, fuel cells, and breathing, reducing lander mass and Earth launch costs.
BlueBird is on board NG-3 launch vehicle. Next: rollout for hotfire.
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