In West Texas on Friday, Blue Origin launched and brought back a suborbital rocket to Earth for the second time. The New Shepard
Rocket and Capsule was developed to take six passengers to space. This company is
owned by Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. This was the same rocket which they
launched 2 months ago.
Last month, Elon Musk’s Space X successfully set
off its rocket on a satellite-delivery mission and got it back on Earth. Space X
and Blue Origin are among the few companies that are manufacturing rockets that
can land back to Earth so that they can be flown again. This will curtail the
expenses to a certain level. Bezos told
that at this point of time Blue Origin is aviating suborbital rockets that are
not fast enough to orbit around Earth. The company is functioning to manufacture
more powerful rocket engines, while the testing is scheduled to commence this
year.
Bezos said “I’m a huge fan of rocket-powered
vertical landing. To achieve our goal of millions of people inhabiting in
space, we will need to build very large rocket boosters. And the vertical
landing system is tremendously good.”
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