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BE-4 Engines Arrive For ULA Vulcan Cert-2
BE-4 Engines Arrive For ULA Vulcan Cert-2
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The second of two Blue Origin BE-4 engines has arrived at United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Decatur, Alabama, factory for installation on a Vulcan rocket targeted for launch this fall.
The mission, known as Certification-2 (Cert-2), is the second of two demonstration missions required for national security space launches (NSSL) aboard ULA's new Vulcan rocket. ULA sold the Cert-2 launch service to Sierra Space for the debut run of its Dream Chaser spaceplane on a cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.
“We expect them to be ready in the fall,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The first Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, is completing thermal vacuum testing at the NASA Armstrong In-Space Propulsion Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. It will then be trucked to Kennedy Space Center for additional testing, including electromagnetic interference and acoustic evaluation, as well as taxi and tow tests before it is mounted atop Vulcan, loaded with cargo and launched.
“Our team has been working around the clock to prepare for Dream Chaser Tenacity's arrival at NASA Kennedy, offloading four semi-tractor trailers of support equipment inside the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF),” Sierra Space wrote on X.
ULA has sold more than 70 Vulcan launches to date, including 38 missions for Amazon's Project Kuiper and multiple NSSL missions under the Phase Two program. The rocket debuted on Jan. 8 with the successful Cert-1 launch, which dispatched the Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander toward the Moon.
The mission, known as Certification-2 (Cert-2), is the second of two demonstration missions required for national security space launches (NSSL) aboard ULA's new Vulcan rocket. ULA sold the Cert-2 launch service to Sierra Space for the debut run of its Dream Chaser spaceplane on a cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.
“We expect them to be ready in the fall,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The first Dream Chaser spaceplane, Tenacity, is completing thermal vacuum testing at the NASA Armstrong In-Space Propulsion Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. It will then be trucked to Kennedy Space Center for additional testing, including electromagnetic interference and acoustic evaluation, as well as taxi and tow tests before it is mounted atop Vulcan, loaded with cargo and launched.
“Our team has been working around the clock to prepare for Dream Chaser Tenacity's arrival at NASA Kennedy, offloading four semi-tractor trailers of support equipment inside the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF),” Sierra Space wrote on X.
ULA has sold more than 70 Vulcan launches to date, including 38 missions for Amazon's Project Kuiper and multiple NSSL missions under the Phase Two program. The rocket debuted on Jan. 8 with the successful Cert-1 launch, which dispatched the Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander toward the Moon.
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