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January 23, 2016 5:20 pm
Washington, United States .- Two months later the successful launch and landing of a reusable rocket, the space company founded by Internet entrepreneur entrepreneur Jeff Bezos repeated the achievement.
The company Blue Origin, said Saturday that the same rocket New Shepard He had been released and then landed in November had repeated the mission, achieving an altitude of 101 kilometers before returning “carefully” to Earth.
A video that the company published the release and landing on the site Texas, showed how the rocket slowed to 5 km / h during its descent with the help of parachutes.
The achievements of Blue Origin and the parallel efforts of the rival company SpaceX have a possibility of lower costs spaceflight transforming the reusable rocket ships such as aircraft.
In November, Bezos said the achievement was “revolutionary”.
Besoz, who founded the company and Amazon is the American newspaper The Washington Post owner, said in a statement Saturday that Blue Origin has managed to solve the problem of balancing the rocket to keep upright while landing.
“I’m a big fan of landings vertical rocket “, welcomed the statement.
” Why? Because to achieve our vision of millions of people can live and work in space will have to build very large rockets. And the architecture of vertical landing is adjusted so exceptionally well. “
In December, SpaceX competitor first attained a rocket landed in a controlled manner, the Falcon 9, using a similar method.
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