The company Blue Origin has conducted the third flight of the same rockets and capsules New Shepard. The recording is impressive!
Blue Origin is the company of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and another private company, which is working on a reusable rocket. Jeff Bezos is trying to forestall its main competitor, Elon Musk and SpaceX. It is also a personal rivalry – between Bezos and Muskie regularly comes to clashes. Blue Origin is working without observing the publicity.
Blue Origin already several times tested its missiles. The first attempt, in kwoetniu 2015 failed, but another – not so. November 23, 2015 rocket capsule rose to 100.5 km and 22 January at the height of 101.7 km.
2 April 2016 conducted the third flight of the same rocket and then managed in a controlled way to bring it on earth. As in previous flights there was a separation of the capsule (eventually apt to guarantee that suborbital flights humans), and that a landing. The capsule fell planned parachute, while the rocket landed on the airstrip.
The last flight aboard the capsule New Shepard were two experiments: COLLIDE prepared by the University of Central Florida, designed to investigate the phenomenon of impaction occurring in microgravity, and BORE, supplied by the southwestern Research Institute (SRI). In it has been studied the behavior of loose, rocky soil, which occurs on a small celestial bodies (eg. Asteroids).
The first manned mission New Shepard could take place in 2017, and the first flight of tourism – in 2018, He announced at a press conference Bezos. The result of the last attempt of his equipment and described as “perfect”.
(ew / Kosmonauta.net / TheVerge)
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