The company Blue Origin, said Saturday that the New Shepard same rocket that was launched in November and then landed the mission had repeated, achieving an altitude of 101 kilometers before returning “carefully” to Earth.
A video that the company published the launch and landing site in Texas, as the rocket showed slowed to 5 km / h during its descent with the help of parachutes.
Blue Origin’s achievements as well as the parallel efforts of the rival company SpaceX have a possibility of lowering costs spaceflight transforming the reusable rocket ships such as aircraft. In November, Bezos said the achievement was “revolutionary”.
Besoz, who founded the company Amazon and also the US newspaper The Washington Post owner, said in a statement Saturday that Blue Origin has succeeded in solving the problem of balancing the rocket to keep upright while landing .
“I’m a big fan of vertical landing 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.
Source: Noticias Argentinas
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