Blue Origin has gone public with info about their first test flight which took place before christmas.
It is a rework of the old DC-X Delta Clipper concept. Looks kinda cool.
Currently low powered peroxide thrusters, sounds like they want to try it with cryogenic LH2/LOX engines next.
Hope it works, going to the high power density engines is non-trivial, and potential difficulties scale as the velocity squared or cubed, as so many have found.
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