Close Menu
CrafficCraffic
  • Home
  • News
    • Internet
    • Gaming
  • Tech
    • Hardware
    • Gaming Tech
    • Mobile Phones
    • Software
  • Science
    • Astronomy
    • Discoveries
    • Psychology
  • Entertainment
    • Anime
    • Reviews
    • Spotlight
    • WWE
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
CrafficCraffic
  • Home
  • News
    • Internet
    • Gaming
  • Tech
    • Hardware
    • Gaming Tech
    • Mobile Phones
    • Software
  • Science
    • Astronomy
    • Discoveries
    • Psychology
  • Entertainment
    • Anime
    • Reviews
    • Spotlight
    • WWE
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
CrafficCraffic
Home » Jeff Bezos shows off the BE-7 engine of Blue Origin and makes a bold prediction
Internet

Jeff Bezos shows off the BE-7 engine of Blue Origin and makes a bold prediction

Rahul BhardwajBy Rahul BhardwajDecember 5, 2020Updated:December 5, 20203 Comments3 Mins Read
Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Reddit Telegram Email
Blue Origin
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced progress on the production of the rocket engine intended for use on the lunar lander that his Blue Origin space venture is building—but he also gave a glimpse of his crystal ball for future moon missions.

“This is the engine that will take the first woman to the surface of the moon,” he wrote in an Instagram article about the hydrogen-fueled BE-7 vehicle.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Jeff Bezos (@jeffbezos)

At one step, the Instagram post—plus parallel updates from Blue Origin via Twitter and the Web—focuses on a new test round for the BE-7 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

The test program began a new series of tests this week.

“Until now in this recent campaign, the thrust chamber has been tested for 20 seconds,” said Blue Origin. “This brings the cumulative test time for the BE-7 thrust chamber to 1,245 seconds.”

As Bezos points out the BE-7 is designed to throttle its strength between 2,000 and 10,000 pounds of thrust, a crucial ability to perform a precision landing on the moon. A single BE-7 will power the Blue Moon Lander descent stage, which is part of the human landing system proposed for use by NASA in its Artemis Moon program.

Blue Origin is the leader of the National Team” of space companies, which also includes Lockheed Martin (responsible for the ascent stage), Northrop Grumman (responsible for the transfer portion that would run the lander in the lunar orbit), and Draper (responsible for avionics).

Which takes us to a deeper level in Bezos’s commentary: the National Team is one of three candidates to produce the human landing system of the Artemis program. SpaceX and an industry team headed by Alabama-based Dynetics are also hunting.

NASA has not yet selected which team (or teams) will be involved in the next phase of development. And even though several teams are selected, it might not be immediately apparent which team will end up constructing the lander that was used for the first crewed moon mission of the Artemis program, scheduled for as early as 2024.

By saying that the BE-7 is the engine that will take the first woman to the moon,” Bezos puts his mouth where his money is. (NASA calls it the first woman and the next man” in appreciation of the fact that the crew is likely to be diverse.)

Will Bezos be right in his assumption that the National Team will win the NASA competition and that the Blue Moon Lander will bring the next team of Moonwalkers down to the lunar surface? We’re likely to know more by February when the Space Agency determines who’s going to the next round.

Blue Origin Internet Jeff Bezos News
Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Previous ArticleInitiating An Internet Argument is Pointless: Philosopher Proved 150 Years Ago
Next Article Is the most powerful Genjutsu from Naruto penetrable?
Rahul Bhardwaj

Related Posts

Gaming

God of War Ragnarok, Greatest of all time?

December 23, 2022
Gaming

How good will be Gran Turismo 7’s superhuman AI?

February 12, 2022
Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE! Dane DeHaan JOINS Christopher Nolan’s historical drama ‘Oppenheimer’

February 9, 2022
View 3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. martinez on January 2, 2021 11:19 pm

    Аs the admin of this weƄ page is worқing, no doubt
    very rapidly it wіll be weⅼl-known, due to its feature contents.

    Reply
  2. Pingback: Jeff Bezos will resign in the third quarter as CEO of Amazon - Craffic

  3. Pingback: Blue Origin delays New Glenn launch till Late 2022 - Craffic

Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

At Craffic we ensure delivering quality content to our readers as they are giving us their precious time to engage with our content. And Craffic was a vision of a group of school friends and they've made it possible by learning the basics of strategies used in the media culture. ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎

Quick Access
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
© 2025 Craffic. Designed by StackX Solutions.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.