Jeff Bezos beats Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the reusable rocket race
Blue Origin, the private space firm owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has just dropped a huge, unexpected gauntlet in the race to develop a reusable rocket. In video released by the company (below), it managed to launch its New Shepard space vehicle consisting of a BE-3 rocket and crew capsule to a height of around 100.5 kilometers (62 miles). Minutes later, the capsule made a controlled landing beneath a parachute, but more importantly, the BE-3 rocket started its own decent when rockets fired at 5,000 feet. From there, it made a a controlled vertical landing and touched down at a gentle 4.4 mph.
Source: Blue Origin, Blue Origin
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