Blue Origin has experienced a setback as it works to produce high-thrust BE-4 rocket engines. While testing a BE-4 engine late last month, the thruster exploded in dramatic fashion. Blue Origin did ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kent-based space exploration firm Blue Origin has donated one of its groundbreaking rocket engines to the Museum of Flight for a ...

Editors note: On Jan. 13, Blue Origin said the launch was postponed to “troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue” that would take the launch “beyond our [Blue Origin’s] window.” The organization said it ...

A Blue Origin rocket engine exploded during testing last month, CNBC has learned, a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customers and its own rocket. During a firing on ...

Blue Origin performing an earlier ground-based test on a BE-4 engine. Blue Origin A Blue Origin rocket engine exploded during a ground-based test last month in a setback for the spaceflight company ...

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Blue Origin has shared footage of a successful hotfire test of its next-generation BE-4 rocket engine. The video shows the rocket pumping out up to 550,000 pounds of thrust, with Blue Origin engineers ...

Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company led by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, encountered a significant obstacle after one of its BE-4 rocket engines exploded during testing. The incident, which took ...

Jeff Bezos, right, the founder of Blue Origin, with Tory Bruno, the CEO of United Launch Alliance.Win McNamee/Getty Images Blue Origin's relationship with one of its closest partners, United Launch ...