This is BE-4.

This is BE-4.

[@StephenSockett]

There's a huge amount of time put into this. Lots of anticipation and build-up. I hope it meets the hype. Good luck.

[@chadwickwood9843]

If not, you are welcome to give it a try.

[@markhorton3994]

@lIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI Starship prototypes have flown. The superheavy booster has static fired. Crew Dragon is one of three human rated orbital spacecraft in the world. Falcon 9 is the most sucessful launch system in the world. The only reusable orbital first stage. There is a tunnel system growing under Las Vegas. Tesla is the first, possibly still the only, electric car company in the worls operating at a profit. Twitter is removing its biased sensorship. The last New Shepherd launch failed. Anazon employees still have to relieve themselves in bottles at their workstations. Where are the engines for ULA's Vulcan? If Blue Origin had delivered as promised Vulcan would be flying. Where is New Glenn? It was promised years ago. Who underdelivers?

[@Syritis]

@@lilililililililililililili430 BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA they're only a decade behind on the engines let alone any flight hardware for new glenn. saying bezo over delivers is a joke right?

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@Syritis Not even close to being a decade behind. 2017 was the original goal, and the first set was delivered in 2022, so 5 years.

[@Syritis]

@@thomasackerman5399 please do explain how that disproves my point. BO has technically been around longer than SpaceX but where BO has only managed to build a glorified carnival ride. spaceX is a world leader in the industry.

[@MonkeyspankO]

Competition isn't just good for the new space race, its essential. Mr.Bezos could have just sat on his cash and no one would have thought less of him. I am genuinely thankful he has elected to contribute in this way. I wish Blue Origin nothing but success in the coming years and decades. All I can ask for is more, more, more!

[@jameswilson5165]

Innovation, bribery, and delay tactic lawsuits. Well, one out of three.

[@MrArcticPOWER]

I would agree with everything you said if it wasn't for the lawsuits. Now it just feels like they're in it for the money.

[@spacey22]

Elon buying Twitter will do more for the “space race” than Bezos at Blue Origin.

[@telebubba5527]

@@spacey22 Yeah, cause he's already leaving Twitter🙄

[@Mister_Durden]

Step 1: Copy SpaceX

[@13deadghosts]

"Where are my engines, Jeff?" -Tory B.

[@illwind56]

Delivered.

[@arandoonline5102]

Delivered but late. Its better than nothing at least

[@purona2500]

@@arandoonline5102 AS IF IT MATTERS. MY god what is with you people

[@matthewpeck4016]

@@illwind56 Two test engines have finally been delivered, massively late, and not even at the same time. The trajectory is atrocious, and many engines were supposed to have been delivered by now. The question remains.

[@attilioc238]

@@matthewpeck4016 Oh no! Matthew is angry for others who didn't get their engines on time! How many did you buy Matthew? BO didnt make Matthews expectation!

[@acarrillo8277]

I am a big fan of the Raptor series but it's good to see more engines designed for reuse.

[@thomasackerman5399]

Of this size range. All the other methlox engines are teeny by comparison to Raptor 1/2 and BE-4!

[@thegalacticempire6858]

Jeff really made an explosive mark in space exploration history with this.

[@thegalacticempire6858]

amn't

[@lazarus2691]

Woulda been nice to get some isp and twr numbers. Not like we've been spoiled by SpaceX/Rocketlab in that regard, the old guard like Rocketdyne and Energomash also give those figures.

[@AdrianBoyko]

This better be the best, most reliable engine ever built, considering how much time they put into it.

[@5893MrWilson]

SpaceX Raptor will be more efficient since its full flow staged combustion cycle. Its twin turbines can also run cooler (and with less wear) without sacrificing efficiency. Suprised Blue origin hasn't tried to do full flow staged engine.

[@purona2500]

@@5893MrWilson They are different for gods sakes. Whatever efficiency Raptor has is in the low single digit percetages if not lower Just because Raptor CAN run cooler doesnt mean it WILL run cooler. Raptor is smaller and uses more effort to get to the same place where the BE-4 is designed to run easy

[@awesomefeldmanfamily]

🤣🤣

[@5893MrWilson]

@@purona2500 the first thing to break on most rocket engines is the turbine inside the turbo pumps. Because full flow runs one turbine oxi rich and the other fuel rich and combines them at the end there is no effeciency cost to running them richer and therefore cooler. Cooler turbines means lower likelihood of cracking and engine failure. There are other aspects of rocket engines but the full flow turbo configuration seems like a no brainer to me. Maybe it's harder to engineer but you get both higher effeciency and higher reliability

[@eddjordan2399]

i think the merlin is the most reliable engine or the rs 25. this engine will have to do over 300 flawless launches/fireing to even get close. good luck to them.

[@BroKenneth6725]

Congratulations on Successful deployment of your BE-4s today with ULA Vulcan Rocket. ❤

[@Pottery4Life]

Yep. Looks good. Again. Looking forward to see New Glenn fly in the next couple years. Maybe.

[@andrisk7513]

Kaboom? Yes Rico, kaboom.

[@MayuriK_it]

Looks like an incredible engine. I need to see it fly with New Glenn!

[@Nowhereman10]

If all goes well, it'll fly for the first time with Vulcan in a few months.

[@MayuriK_it]

@@Nowhereman10 ah, true! I forgot this!

[@markhorton3994]

@@Nowhereman10 Vulcan has been ready for over a year except no engines.

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@markhorton3994 That's not true. The core hasn't been ready until about six months ago, at the earliest. The Centaur V only just got delivered a couple months ago (the testing for it finished up about the same time), and the interstage also only got delivered last month. Peregrine is still in final testing and may not be ready by the end of March, like they need it to be.

[@matthewpeck4016]

I "hear the rumble and feel the energy" multiples times pretty much every day of the tests SpaceX run 17 miles away from my house in Central Texas. Muliple tests, almost every day, on multiple engine families. That's production. What's holding BO back?

[@dmurray2978]

Unwillingness to change, and a dash of delusion

[@blameyourself4489]

@@dmurray2978 I'd rather call it good aerospace engineering doing things right the first time. You are not within the aerospace busines, are you? SpaceX fans normally are not.

[@matthewpeck4016]

@@blameyourself4489 no, that's traditional aerospace: failure-avoidance resulting in blown budgets, blown time-frames, and underperforming products. SpaceX are failure-embracers, and are creating innovative products at a pace the traditional industry can't dream of.

[@Nowhereman10]

@@matthewpeck4016 They're still years behind schedule. No one's immune to it and word has it there's increasing problems with Starship and Raptor 2, which is why the "FAA Conspiracy" shyte is being pushed by the SpaceX fans.

[@blameyourself4489]

@@matthewpeck4016 And in spite of that, NASA came first to Mars and to the Moon. I wouldn't hold my cards on Elon Musk.

[@KsNewSpace]

Thanks for giving us an update! Hope now that the engines are built we soon also get to see some shots of New Glenn development :)

[@thomasackerman5399]

They already did that a few months ago. See the two previous videos posted to their channel before this. Lots of New Glenn hardware!

[@josephschaffer2716]

Watch to the end of the video. They have built GS1 booster prototypes.

[@blazikenchad8876]

You did get some explosive shots

[@Nowhereman10]

And GS2 Freedom rolled out to LC-36 and is now there in the hanger alongside a complete 2nd stage.

[@johnbarrile0612]

Looks like blue origin is stepping up to the plate!! Good luck guys, space is hard!!

[@mfzb0912]

Stepping up to what plate? This engine has been used for years.. if anything BO is in the dugout. Still no New Glenn still no orbit.

[@maxv9464]

@@mfzb0912 Who has been using it for years?

[@geomodelrailroader]

that engine is 4 years late Bezos has been doing sub orbital joyrides and this engine was supposed to be in Decatur two years ago. ULA is threatening to cancel their contract just like when they canceled Project Omega. If that engine is not in Decatur by the end of the year or the 14th of January, the deal is off, and ULA and NASA will have to find another contractor for Starliner. Blue Origin needs to deliver Jeff Bezos has cut too many corners and is years behind Elon, NASA, The Russians, and ULA. ULA needs that engine if they are going to launch Starliner and Dreamchaser it supplies the power for the Vulcan first stage and that rocket is going nowhere unless Bezos delivers instead of giving joyrides on his Shepherd spacecraft. Joyrides do not pay the bills! NASA will cancel his contracts and FAA will pull his license in January if that engine is not in Decatur Alabama at Marshal Space Center. The Vulcan needs it engines Atlas has one flight to go, and we need Blue Origin to deliver or Astro Sunny will never make it to space and will have to ask Elon for a ride. We will not let that happen. Blue Origin GET THAT ENGINE TO DECATUR NOW! I'm only going to say this once no more joyrides you deliver that engine.

[@maxv9464]

@@geomodelrailroader New Shepard isn't, like, stealing BE4 engines. And rides aboard it *do* help pay the bills. ULA has their first delivery already lol.

[@Ukrainesdude]

Mind Blowing 🤯

[@mattgroening8872]

Oh wow, this looks great. Jeff’s gonna make an explosive change in space travel with this one

[@cheeseswears]

If this was a decade ago

[@mattgroening8872]

@@cheeseswears its a joke. This ship exploded.

[@Nowhereman10]

That didn't age well. BE-4 was flawless on Cert-1.

[@sunlaser6587]

@@Nowhereman10 but will it be reusable like they claimed? xD

[@Nowhereman10]

@@sunlaser6587 Yes. You obviously never followed the extreme testing done on the per-qualification and qualification engines. One engine, PQE-900 was started 36 times and accumulated over 5000 seconds of firing time on the stands.

[@hunterrules0_o]

This engine is life changing. It really took my breath away

[@alexf3007]

They have been doing test fires of these engines (currently the 3, I believe) near where I live - to make sure the stand can handle the 4 engine. I don't think this video will ever be able to depict how powerful and loud these engines are. It's incredible. I'm at least a couple of miles away and can feel it in my chest when I'm outside. I love it.

[@markjmaxwell9819]

The BE-4 has turned out to be an excellent engine. As I am typing this Vulcan Centaur has completed it's maiden flight successfully using these engines with no major issues relating to the BE-4 at all. Good job to everyone at Blue Origin the BE-4 has done the job as expected. 😎👍

[@jimcabezola3051]

Wishing you all the best!

[@jason1440]

Uh oh. He said natural gas is a clean burning fuel! The green weenies aren't going to like that.

[@WilliamMulligan]

What's a 'Sales Engineer?' I looked it up. Apparently it's somebody who converts tech speak to layman speak.

[@justicevanpool9025]

An engineer who knows how to sell. I think that being able to speak to managers who might not be as technically savvy as an engineer is one important aspect, but being able to understand the technology well enough to speak to the engineers who work at your customers company is equally if not more important in order to gain credibility with them, and to have the client's engineers explain and discuss in further detail with other key members at their company...

[@Wild-Eye]

Excited to see the plumes from these engines in the stratosphere 👍🏻

[@thejanitor3263]

Excited to see them grounded for a good while before that

[@Axeqr]

💥THIS ONES GONNA BE A *BANGER*💥

[@highpointsights]

the first genuinely positive commentary on the BE-4 so far!!

[@Xavier1...]

Always existed for competition in the space industry. It pushes the limits

[@timo4257]

Would like to see this on Vulcan.

[@Przemro9]

I think Vulcan would like to see them too, heard of them for a long time, never seen one tho ;)

[@Ethan_Roberts]

@@Przemro9 vulcan currently has its BE 4 engines installed

[@timo4257]

@@Ethan_Roberts yes, but it's fun to make fun of bo

[@ameritoast5174]

@@Ethan_Roberts When will it have its first launch with them?

[@Ethan_Roberts]

@@ameritoast5174 there's no specific date yet but it's planned for sometime in early 2023

[@EpicSpaceflight]

Im excited to see these engines fly!

[@santaclaus5959]

Yay, I’m looking forward to seeing these flying

[@dabbi827]

such a shame bezos wasnt onboard the rocket

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Hope for success, plan and engineer for everything else, learn from what goes wrong and build better. Hoping Blue Origin has done a lot of this with BE-4 and New Glenn, both for the opportunities they represent, and the competition being spurred on and bringing the costs of spaceflight down to where much smaller budgeted customers can make use of the future possibilities.

[@TheMusicHeals.kjhjhhg]

B4 go BOOM!

[@rat4038]

i think this is really going somewhere

[@RussCrush]

YAWN!! Launch it already!!

[@thinkingthing4851]

Methane Future 🤙🚀

[@kirbth4769]

🤙💥

[@Y2Kvids]

This is slowing down earth's rotation , BE considerate

[@stellablaze7979]

Over 4 years late, but better than never. ULA needs their engines.

[@shadbakht]

You've had 20 years!! What's taking you so long? Not even made it to orbit yet. This is embarrassingly slow.

[@grahamwalker2312]

innovative use of propellant combination.

[@paulsto6516]

Still no orbit.

[@axilton2743]

Still no bitches

[@86davy]

takes us out of a position where we’re relying on our adversaries for engines. I like that

[@TemplarX2]

Let's go, Blue Origin. Catch up. Build me a city in space.

[@Emerson1]

When is ULA 1st launch?

[@FrankBenlin]

Send it up.

[@wheelsmcdealsace]

get enough test in with that pointed west might make the day shorter. lol

[@markmd9]

Already forgot about this company. Glad it is still alive

[@axilton2743]

Already forgot u

[@archer1133]

@@axilton2743 Bro they haven't done anything in the last 20 years. Hard to remember

[@axilton2743]

@@archer1133 maybe you should read on how many employees work at the companies and the differences dumb ass

[@archer1133]

@@axilton2743 There is no excuse. Having half the employees and still not being able to achieve orbit over the same time frame, while having cost overruns and asking for more time and money for just one engine. Come on man. SpaceX has had ~60 orbital launches this year and Blue Origin has had 0 and will continue to have 0 till probably 2025. At that point, New Glenn will be completely obsolete in the face of other, smaller companies. Even Rocket Lab and Astra have achieved orbit with WAY less employees.

[@axilton2743]

@@archer1133 that’s bc there focused on something big rather then sending up satellites every second they get. No need to hate buddy but ur just one person with a useless opinion. Good luck in life tho 👍

[@priceringo1756]

Thanks for sharing. That wasn't so hard now was it?

[@tertiaryobjective]

Oxygen rich staged combustion? Impressive, I wonder what kind of alloys are used to prevent it from running engine rich? (besides inconel)

[@KsNewSpace]

I somehow doubt they would answer that.

[@sidneyboakye4662]

Prayers. Lol

[@kirbth4769]

@@sidneyboakye4662accurate

[@NeroDefogger]

hopefully the vulcan and new glenn are great rockets that achieve incredible stuff with the engine

[@cenakaze]

Very nice engines! Time to make lots of them satisfy the growing space launch market

[@microMobilidade]

Hear them roar!

[@IDEALEGACY59]

Yessssss👍🏾

[@grovermatic]

Step by step, ferociously!

[@Syritis]

step by step, eventually!

[@grovermatic]

@@Syritis Rocket science ain't easy.

[@Syritis]

@@grovermatic seems to be a whole lot easy for spaceX. BO has been around longer yet only operates a glorified carnival ride whereas spaceX is a world leader in the industry.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

You can watch Raptor testing pretty much continuously.

[@thomasackerman5399]

There's lots and lots of satellite imagery of BE-4 weekly test firings, if you go look for it.

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

Can I mount it behind my VOLKSWAGEN! 😱😁🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸

[@joaomrtins]

Now we wanna see it go boom

[@dunneincrewgear]

Cool!

[@risingmoon893]

And only a few years behind schedule!!!

[@IntenseVisuals]

Oh hell yeah! Let's go BE-4!

[@thejesuschrist]

Awesome!

[@alocksgim]

멋있다

[@MonsterSound]

Good luck. Throughout the 2020's (started 2 years ago?).

[@shaneofcanada7042]

If SpaceX didn't exist, Blue Orgin would be the darling of the space community. Re-used sub orbital rocket, new Rockets, new engines, moon lander... But SpaceX does exist... Come on BO you guys have some cool shit, looking forward to it, Go Team Space!!!

[@miriamweller812]

SpaceX is programmed for failure. What they do now is nothing special and is done since decades, more the USA paying a hell lot of money for it, because they don't want to pay Russia. But the Mars plans are just ridiculous. Maybe in some decades, maybe earlier, depending on how AI and alike developes plus robotics, but what Space X is promising is a complete farce.

[@johno30197]

That is fkn awesome dude.... wow!!!!

[@cardialart]

Wooooow!

[@scb822]

Glossy Brochure

[@Labyrinthine_Complexities]

✨🙌✨

[@Mister_Durden]

Blue Origin playbook. 1 page, 1 line. Copy SpaceX

[@spaceobsessedfemboy]

It's not really copying SpaceX. The idea of a liquid methane powered rocket has been bouncing around since the 60s and 70s, with the first large one being built in 2007 by XCOR, about 9 years before the Raptor.

[@Mister_Durden]

@@spaceobsessedfemboy and switching to stainless steel booster construction? Probably saw that on an episode of star trek.

[@kirkc9643]

Yeah but more like the poor Chinese copy

[@dimlio]

Beautiful!!!!

[@ivangordienko8081]

Spoiler alert: it exploded

[@scotts.8972]

I wish they mentioned that ULA is also using this engine. That’s a huge read this engine means so much. It’s not just blue origin.

[@markhorton3994]

Blue Origin doesn't dare mention ULA, too embarrassing. Vulcan has been ready to fly for over a year but Blue Origin has not delivered.

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@markhorton3994 Not true at all. The Centaur V was only finished testing and qualified a couple months ago and the flight stage delivered to the factory to be shipped with the core stage less than a month ago.

[@Mister_Durden]

They should try and buy raptors, if SpaceX would even sell em one.

[@markhorton3994]

@@Mister_Durden Everything about Vulcan is designed around LNG- LOX, fueling equipment, valves seals, size of tanks even the control programs are optimized for that fuel and oxidizer. Raptors use Methane-LOX similar but not the same. Changing to Raptors would require re-doing years of design work and starting manufacturing over. Not practical.

[@Mister_Durden]

@@markhorton3994 years of re engineering would still be ready before BS4

[@mendelmarozov888]

And we are almost as good as raptor!!

[@JigilJigil]

Starship and New Glenn will define a new era of space capabilities.

[@morbus5726]

New Glenn can't be compared to the starship. It's competing with the f9 and falcon heavy. (Even the falcon heavy can carry about 20,000 more kgs to leo)

[@JigilJigil]

@@morbus5726 It's not competing with F9, New Glenn can carry 45000 kg to orbit (LEO), it's almost three time the F9, (reusable F9 carries 16t).

[@morbus5726]

@@JigilJigil It's also competing with the falcon heavy, which can carry 60,000 kg to Leo. Starship can carry upwards of 100kg to Leo, more than double the capacity of new glenn.

[@nigephillips682]

How are you going to recover the BE4 for reuse?

[@maxv9464]

The new Glenn first stage lands like a falcon 9 at sea. Vulcan-bound engines can't be reused, though.

[@matthewpeck4016]

@@maxv9464 Vulcan's second iteration has a detachable and recoverable power pack, so they will be reused once the vehicle is flight-proven.

[@maxv9464]

@@matthewpeck4016 Oh wow, very cool! Thanks for letting me know.

[@lazarus2691]

@@matthewpeck4016 I'll believe it when I see it. It's not that I don't think it's technically viable, I just don't have much faith in Boeing/Lockheed signing off on the dev costs. I think Blue will figure out landing New Glenn pretty quickly though, and it uses 7 engines to Vulcan's 2, so *most* BE-4s will still end up being reused.

[@Travel_with_Hayden_Wendt]

One word. Raptor

[@TheMchip]

spacex rox :D

[@giminai8000]

That’s nice and all but you’re late space X Knew all about the problems and issues that a oxygen/methane engine brings to the table they are 100 steps ahead of you guys this is nothing impressive , besides SpaceX pumps out I think it was 7 Raptor 2 engines a week and how many do you guys produce like 1 or 2 in how long?

[@thesmurf321_]

Good luck.

[@SivicIsntFat]

Sooooo exciting!!

[@b1blancer1]

Meanwhile, there's been only crickets from Blue Origin about the cause of the New Shepard launch failure back in September.

[@Syritis]

this need to be said louder

[@zacvidyasagar8208]

OMG how cool, now fly it please

[@ifwemadeit]

2066 launch!

[@dylangtech]

First orange rocket, and now we got the engines! Great to see them in action. Congratulations!

[@jihan4073]

Yes yes we will go to the moon

[@terrestrialcreature7481]

Thanks to NASA and SpaceX. Blue Origin is too busy with lawsuits and attempting to delay others. It had so much potential.

[@benoit-pierredemaine3824]

I want blue origin to speed up for a very specific reason. It's not about having any preference between musk and besos. It's about being tired being surrounded by people who think only musk wants to send 10000 satellites in LEO. Elon was just the first one ready to start. Jeff also wants to do it, and also started already, but everyone accuses Elon because ... Only Elon communicates about it, and he is the only one actually sending 240+ sats per month. People don't understand that Jeff has exactly the same intentions, and *will* do the same when he is ready.

[@paulsto6516]

Intentions don't orbit.

[@benoit-pierredemaine3824]

@@paulsto6516 some say that blue origins rocket may be ready before starship. It may not suffice ... Elon beated concurrent for ISS, the moon, and communication constellation ... For good or for bad :/ I want to see concurrent coming around.

[@Mister_Durden]

He cant even get his penis-mobile to the EDGE of space without failing. When he is ready? Lol ok.

[@greslycraane1986]

Bragging about how fast you go at the start line wont let you win the race.

[@michaelwempe6997]

thats cool, but have you seen Raptor?

[@mjoao4635]

It seems an amazing piece , but all world have to see his engine fly ,,,,,lets hope Well and lots of seconds 👌👌

[@Nowhereman10]

Cert-1 BE-4s flew flawlessly.

[@Sora._Cloud]

Boo!!! Raptor for the win!

[@DTHRocket]

The internet loves to hate on you, Blue, but once you have actual heritage under your belt, you will truly be a formidable player, and I believe will be in a great position to be the most active, successful spaceflight company in history. Just don't mess up. And stop pretending to be cool. You'll be cool when you reach orbit.

[@Nowhereman10]

Grumman Aerospace never launched anything into orbit, yet they built a great lunar lander for Apollo. Blue bit off a lot to work on, and they're beginning to deliver and all despite some setbacks.

[@archer1133]

And stop suing just to delay spaceflight

[@kirbth4769]

They messed up

[@kaleyduke4306]

WOOO

[@Aviation2340YT]

Is your engine raptor engine?

[@bassmeets1169]

ULA should just dump these engines and go for Raptor 2,BE4 will stay in development for 2-3 years more.

[@dumitrulangham1721]

So basically the world’s first eco-friendly rocket engine

[@kirkc9643]

Nah, SpaceX have successfully built and flown methalox engines for years now.

[@davisdf3064]

Have you ever heard of Hydrolox?

[@Diartoo]

Why not mention Vulcan Centaur though?

[@thomasackerman5399]

Because that's Tory's job. To hype his rocket up.

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

KABOOOM

[@MrFranklitalien]

dont let the haters drag you down :) as long as those engines work well and reliably you've got plenty to be proud of!

[@paulsto6516]

Like a multitude of frivolous lawsuits.

[@kirbth4769]

The haters dragged it down

[@dumitrulangham1721]

❤🎉🎉🎉🤞🤞🤞🤞

[@MikeBourdages]

wehn orbit?

[@tumelosaraspilane9447]

#GradatimFerociter🚀

[@Baixinho_do_L]

who is blue orign compared to space x?