SPACE The exploit the boss Amason gives an edge to its space transportation company, Blue Origin, in the race for reusable launch vehicles, a market with enormous potential …
Rock music, special effects and champagne galore: the boss of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has put the package to celebrate his feat achieved this week: take off a rocket, bringing it into space and to land unharmed, a few meters from its launch pad
“The rarest of beasts -. a used rocket. The controlled landing is not easy, but when it is done well, it seems simple, “is foamed in his first tweet one that has embarked on the adventure with his aerospace company Blue Origin, in line other big bosses space enthusiasts, Richard Branson (Virgin) and Elon Musk (SpaceX)
A fall in 7000 kmh
His satisfaction is not stolen.: in the race for reusable rocket, which also involved Airbus and SpaceX, Bezos takes a step ahead. His launcher New Shepard performed on Monday a suborbital test flight of reaching 101 km altitude. – Is one kilometer above what is accepted as the border with the space
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There he dropped a capsule, uninhabited but can house six people … and to eventually accommodate space tourists paying a high price for four minutes in space before falling. The rocket then turned back on its single engine at about 1,500 meters above sea level to slow its descent while his speed reached at the maximum, 7000 km / h. The pitcher was able to come to rest almost the same place from which he had departed, Texas. The capsule, she was raised without difficulty via a conventional trio of parachutes.
Elon Musk bad loser?
Make a rocket to land then reuse is a major issue of space transportation sector. As 20 Minutes he explained a few months ago, before a failed attempt to SpaceX in this sense, reusable launch vehicles would drastically reduce the cost of access to space. A company controlling the technology would become inevitable and crush the competition.
Speaking of competition, it should be mentioned very squeaky congratulating Elon Musk, including all launch vehicles have so far been destroyed during their landing attempt, its competitor Jeff Bezos. On Twitter, the boss said that SpaceX rocket Bezos had made a suborbital flight: it was powerful enough to reach space, but too weak to send objects into orbit as do throwers SpaceX. Basically, what Bezos managed with a bicycle, Musk is trying to do with Formula 1. This is good, but the two did not play in the same category.
Elon Musk Rams d Besides the nail recalling that take off a test-launch vehicle and recover the ground without damage he has done several times with Grasshopper rockets. Certainly. But let’s face it, when you look at the video of SpaceX launcher, it is clearly less impressed than before that of Blue Origin: Grasshopper off and lands, yes, but rises only a few hundred meters
And in addition, there is neither rock nor champagne in the video.
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