Blue Origin has successfully re-launched missile New Shepard – Popular Mechanics

During the first flight in November New Shepard rocket reached the mark of 100.5 km, and then landed upright on the test field in Texas. She rose above the Karman arbitrary boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, becoming the first rocket that traveled in a vacuum and vertical landing on Earth.

Since then, SpaceX conducted for as much as two-run (one actually triumphant, the other is not so good), but from Blue Origin was no new information. Apparently, New Shepard landed in accuracy specifications, so it is not re-tightened. Engineers replaced the parachute on the capsule with the crew, pirovosplameniteli, we carried out the necessary checks and upgraded the software.

In the second flight New Shepard reached a point in the 101.7 km, but this time the landing was carried out a little differently. In the new programs had other priorities during landing. The rocket is now not to target the exact center of the landing landing. Instead, still maintaining the general direction, she sat down to where it was more convenient, that is, not to make unexpected maneuvers due to wind gusts just to be sure to land in the middle.

In contrast to the

mask, which plans to send the Falcon 9 rocket into a museum, Jeff Bezos, head of the Blue Origin, is about to launch the same rocket again and again throughout the year. In a statement issued on the occasion of a new start, he also says that this year will be held a new test engine BE-4.