
Blue Origin said Tuesday it recently completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine, calling it the first new hydrogen engine to be developed in the United States in more than a decade.“The BE-3 has now been fired for more than 30,000 seconds over the course of 450 tests,” Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said in a statement.The BE-3 is not the rocket engine being co-developed with launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) for a next-generation rocket engine. That engine,…