Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin Partners With Lockheed Martin, Boeing To Build Next Gen-Rocket Engines, Reusable Space Transport Vehicles, ‘It's Time For A 21st-Century Booster Engine’

Jeff Bezos Amazon. Until now, the U.S. has been relying on Russian Rocket engines for NASA’s space machines. But now there is another option. Jeff Bezos. Yes Jeff Bezos has a startup Blue Origin LLC, has finally come to maturity, making a deal with top defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Boeing to build rocket engines.

Blue Engine 4, aka BE4 is named after Jeff Bezos’ little-known company Blue Origin and can generate 550,000 pounds of rocket power from oxygen and liquefied natural gas. Using a single turbopump, experts say that this could be more efficient than a double prop system.

The rocket engine will be made using funds from Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin and a venture by Lockheed Martin and Boeing, United Launch Alliance. The engine will be developed in four years.

"It's time for a 21st-century booster engine," Bezos was quoted during an announcement at the National Press Club. "The engines built in the '50s, '60s, and '70s are remarkable pieces of hardware. But we have tools and capabilities — software simulations, computational horsepower — that the builders of those engines could only dream about."

In a press conference where Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos discussed other Blue Origin projects such as manufacturing of reusable transport vehicles to orbit Planet Earth, which would save millions in space travel: “The timeline for that is late this decade,” he said. “We continue on that path.” He quoted the company’s motto in Latin, which he said translates to, “step by step ferociously.”

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