Amazon boss's company successfully launched reusable missiles

In the future, it is only a matter of money to go back to the universe to play.

Amazon boss space research company surpasses Elon Musk

Blue Origin, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' private research company in space research - has just released a project that no one expected.The company's New Shepard space shuttle , which includes a human compartment mounted on the BE-3 rocket, was launched to an altitude of about 100km. The storage compartment then separated from the ship, opened the umbrella and landed safely.

More notably, the BE-3 boosters landed intact on the ground for reuse. When the missile falls to a high cave about 1.5 km, it will be controlled to land vertically at a speed of 7km / h.

SpaceX, the astronaut research firm of Elon Musk - co-founder of Tesla Motor and Paypal, has also successfully built the reusable Falcon 9 rocket, but still cannot make it land a landing. The way is smooth. However, the Falcon 9 was given more difficult missions because they wanted to launch the ship to the height of Earth orbit (about over 214km).

Although both New Shepard and Falcon 9 rocket boosters were separated from the human tank at an altitude of 80km, the speed at that time of the Falcon 9 rocket was much faster, at about 12,250km / h ( Mach 10) compared to 4,532km / h (Mach 3.7) of missiles on New Shepard.

For that reason, the Falcon 9 rocket continues to travel about 144km longer from Earth's orbit. Unfortunately, it exploded in the sky during the latest launch, making SpaceX stand firm compared to other competitors. On the occasion of Blue Origin's success test, Elon Musk congratulated Jeff Bezos on Twitter.

Bezos proudly said: "The BE-3 rocket has been stored in a safe warehouse in Texas, it really is a beast with this test launch smoothly like this. 100km above the ground, overcoming a wind of 160km / h to safely return to the landing platform, even the missile responds only 1.3 meters. "

In the introductory video, we can clearly see the rocket falling at a very fast speed, then it is pushed up to slow down when approaching the ground. In addition, the landing gear used for landing in the human compartment was released at a height of 6100 meters to help the landing process be quite gentle.

As expected, New Shepard and BE-3 boosters will be commercialized and used for space travel in orbit. Blue Origin agency representative said there is no specific schedule for the upcoming flights, but they revealed that the flight will consist of six crews brought to a height of 100km above the ground.

In the race, it was joined by Virgin Galactic, unfortunately, their Spaceship 2 was blown up in 2014, causing a pilot to die, but in the future they will rebuild the aircraft. Time to join the game with the other two companies. The BE-3 rocket could also be used in the Vulcan spacecraft of United Launch Alliance.