The first rocket landing ever gives the company an edge in the battle to make the first reusable rocket in the world. Blue Origin surprised by achieving the milestone for SpaceX competitor Tesla founder Elon Musk.
SpaceX has repeatedly tried to have a rocket land on earth, but as yet it still failed. SpaceX rockets landed hard on the appropriate platform. In June, also was a launch of SpaceX wrong and exploded an unmanned rocket with supplies for the International Space Station.
The Blue Origin rocket was launched Monday from Texas to a height of about one hundred kilometers. He then landed again at a rate of around seven kilometers per hour. The company posted a video of the launch and landing on his website
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Platform
During the descent started the engines of the BE-3 rocket from a firing altitude of about 1500 meters, enabling a safe landing was possible. A space capsule was repelled by the rocket at its highest point. Also the capsule landed safely with a parachute.
In the video you can see that the Blue Origin rocket landed neatly on the appropriate platform. The company placed this platform in the desert, while SpaceX until now has always tried to have come down rockets on a floating platform
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Cheaper
Blue Origin and SpaceX are trying to create reusable rockets because that space could make a lot cheaper. Now, with each launch destroyed a large amount of material.
Reusable missiles could also make space tourism possible. People as one of the first to make such a flight can already register with Blue Origin.
“A controlled landing is not easy, but may look easy when it is done correctly,” writes founder Bezos on Twitter.
Musk
Competitor Elon Musk has Bezos and his team Tuesday congratulated on their landing. In addition, he placed the note that the rocket Blue Origin has indeed reached the area, but could not get his cargo into orbit around the Earth.
For this, a missile must be much faster, which makes it in turn more difficult to land. Rocket Blue Origin took over three times the speed of sound, but to come he should have gone ten times faster in orbit around the Earth.
rockets SpaceX need their capsules in orbit around the earth can get, because they have to reach the ISS. SpaceX conducted itself in 2012 and 2013 all tests with the Grasshopper rocket, which reached a maximum height of 744 meters. Thus the company was able to weather countries.
Colony
Blue Origin’s long-term goal is to create “a sustained human presence in space” as possible, and to a colony to found on another planet.
used New Shepard rocket, called by Bezos’ the rarest beast “, is now back parked at the base of Blue Origin in Texas.
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