On July 9th, Deep Blue Aerospace announced today that recently, Deep Blue Aerospace’s 20-ton “Thunder-R1” reusable engine successfully completed the first round of ignition test. The same engine was used in this test, and a total of 5 ignition tests were carried out. The cumulative ignition working time reached 138 seconds, and the longest single working time reached 90 seconds. Deep Blue Aerospace stated that the engine works smoothly, starts and shuts down normally in each test run, marking the complete success of the first round of test run of the Thunder-R1 engine. According to the video, this full-system test drive verified the correctness of the “Thunder-R1” engine technical solution and the coordination of the whole system’s work, which is an important technological breakthrough in the reuse of rocket engines. In the follow-up, tests such as the secondary start of the “Thunder-R1” engine and the depth change of thrust will be carried out as planned. The “Thunder-R1” engine is a 20-ton thrust liquid oxygen kerosene rocket engine developed by Deep Blue Aerospace. It will be used in Deep Blue Aerospace’s first orbit-level recoverable launch vehicle “Nebulas 1″ in a parallel manner with nine sub-stages. .
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