7/13/2023 0 Comments Jeff bezos blue origin![]() ![]() New Glenn is not expected to carry humans, at least at first, but will instead haul satellites and other cargo to orbit. That rocket has been used to carry paying customers - and last summer, Bezos himself - on brief, supersonic joy rides that reach the edge of what is technically considered space. ![]() So far, Blue Origin has only conducted flights of its much smaller New Shepard suborbital rocket. SpaceX has sent rockets into orbit since 2008. Landing rocket boosters instead of discarding them in the ocean, as other rocket companies have done for decades, is at the core of SpaceX’s and Blue Origin’s plans to bring down the cost of a launch and ensure profitability.īlue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is planned to be the first of the company’s rockets that will be capable of reaching orbit, a trek that requires speeds topping 17,000 miles per hour. Mills declined to say how much the refurbishments would have cost. Theoretically, a massive ship could remain steady in rough waters, allowing Blue Origin to carry out its booster retrieval operations in all types of weather.īut that plan would have required the Jacklyn, a former cargo ship built in 2004, to undergo extensive retrofitting - including the installation of a massive platform for the rocket to target. When the large first-stage booster that gives the initial thrust at liftoff expends most of its fuel, it is designed to detach from the upper stage of the rocket and make a controlled pinpoint landing on Earth, just as SpaceX already does with its Falcon 9 rockets.īlue Origin’s website still references landing its rockets on a ship, rather than a barge, touting that it allows the booster to land in turbulent ocean conditions. Tony Giberson/USA TODAY NETWORK/Imagnīlue Origin wanted to sail the Jacklyn out into the Atlantic Ocean to catch its New Glenn rocket boosters. The ship is seen here on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The retrofit and maintenance of the Jacklyn was being carried out at the Port of Pensacola. ![]()
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