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Last week, our BE-7 team conducted another successful Thrust Chamber Assembly (TCA) test at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Test Stand 116. Our tests on an upgraded TCA bring our cumulative test time to more than 4000 seconds, and we are on track in our engine development path.

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Blue Origin3 years ago

This was a self-funded test as part of our campaign to advance our lunar capabilities, and we’re grateful for our @NASA_Marshall partners.

Tom Mueller3 years ago

Too much film cooling

Zack Golden3 years ago

Awesome to see more progress!

Draper3 years ago

Excited to be on the National Team as we push toward our goal of going back to the moon! #team #space #blueorigin

SixSilverStones3 years ago

Methalox engines are so beautiful

Patrick Morrison3 years ago

Congrats! Looks like it has more of a nozzle extension on it now. When are you going to test it with pumps?

Pager - Monke3 years ago

We need a villain Jeff. Let’s go build some O’Neill cylinders.

Hubert3 years ago

@blueorigin I think we would be very grateful if you post BE3U's nozzle

Khoa Le3 years ago

Raptor has over 1000 tests where multiple of them are full duration of a few minutes. Your 4000 seconds commutative does not have much meaning. In fact, if Starship launch, they will have 4000 seconds of engine running in one launch. 120 sec * 33 engines

DemonstrableReality3 years ago

Why not conduct the test in a vacuum chamber?

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