{"id":83191,"date":"2018-10-01T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-beats-key-rival-to-rocket-engine-deal"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:23:45","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-beats-key-rival-to-rocket-engine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-beats-key-rival-to-rocket-engine-deal","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin beats key rival to rocket engine deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-beats-key-rival-to-rocket-engine-deal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/07\/blue-origin-shows-how-new-glenn-rocket-will-fly-and-land\/\">its own rocket programs<\/a>, but it just scored a deal that could make it an important name in the spaceflight industry. United Launch Alliance has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulalaunch.com\/about\/news-detail\/2018\/09\/27\/united-launch-alliance-building-rocket-of-the-future-with-industry-leading-strategic-partnerships\">chosen<\/a> Blue Origin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/06\/blue-origins-latest-rocket-engine-is-finally-complete\/\">BE-4 engine<\/a> (two of them, to be exact) to power the booster stage its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is due to launch in mid-2020. Jeff Bezos\u2019 outfit won\u2019t be the only rocket vendor involved, but it crucially beat out Aerojet Rocketdyne \u2014 a behemoth in the industry that had tried to pressure ULA into avoiding Blue Origin tech altogether.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/30\/blue-origin-beats-rival-to-rocket-engine-deal\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/09\/30\/blue-origin-beats-rival-...gine-deal\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin is best known for its own rocket programs, but it just scored a deal that could make it an important name in the spaceflight industry. United Launch Alliance has chosen Blue Origin\u2019s BE-4 engine (two of them, to be exact) to power the booster stage its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is due [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}