Now safely tucked away at our launch site in West Texas is the rarest of beasts, a used rocket.”īezos said that New Shepard flew a flawless mission even though it returned through 119-mile (192-kilometer) per hour high-altitude crosswinds to make the controlled landing. “Rockets have always been expendable,” said Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin in a statement. Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin team celebrate the first successful landing from space of the New Shepard booster. The BE-3 engine re-ignited at 4,896 feet (1492 meters) above the ground and slowed to 4.4 miles (7.1 kilometers) per hour before gently landing just over four feet from the landing pad. ![]() The capsule returned to terra firma via parachutes while the booster conducted a controlled descent. The BE-3 engine provided 110,000 lbs of thrust during ascent pushing the craft to Mach 3.72 before coasting to the edge of space. New Shepard is comprised of two parts: the booster itself and a crew capsule. New Shepard, named in honor of the first American in space, Alan Shepard, is a fully reusable vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) rocket. 23, 2015, from the company’s West Texas launch site. The secretive launch was hailed as a triumph – one richly deserved. (Click to enlarge.) Photo Credit: Blue Originīlue Origin successfully flew their New Shepard suborbital spacecraft and booster to space on an unpiloted test reaching a planned altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before landing back at the launch site.
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