Recently the American company Blue Origin began bench tests of the engine BE-4, designed to be similar to the Russian RD-180. After a series of tests representatives of the company said that the trials ended with damage to equipment, reports Space News.
We lost a set of powerpack test hardware on one of our BE-4 test stands yesterday. Not unusual during development.
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) may 14, 2017
Yesterday we lost a set of test equipment of fuel system on one of the test stands BE-4 — written in Twitter the company.
On the scale of the incident and reasons not reported.
The engines of the BE-4 was created to replace the Russian RD-180 engines, which are now put on the American boosters Atlas. Three years ago, the U.S. Congress issued a resolution in which it urged to accelerate the pace of development of the American counterpart, the creation of which has been the company Blue Origin.
Developers report that in the near future will deal with the problem and will continue testing.
The first test of the engine BE-4, Blue Origin has failed
Vyacheslav Larionov