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Topic: Blue Origin makes historic rocket landing

squeegee started this discussion 11 years ago #47,877

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The New Shepard space vehicle is fully reusable and operated from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site. The vehicle is comprised of two elements—a crew capsule in which the astronauts ride and a rocket booster powered by a single American-made BE-3 liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen engine. At liftoff, the BE-3 delivers 110,000 pounds of thrust. During ascent, astronauts experience 3x the force of gravity as the spacecraft accelerates through the atmosphere.

Following powered flight, the crew capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, providing several minutes of weightlessness. As the crew capsule descends, it reenters the atmosphere with astronauts experiencing about 5x the force of gravity before deploying three main parachutes for landing. Meanwhile, the booster descends under guided flight to the landing pad. Just prior to landing, the booster re-ignites its BE-3 engine which slows the vehicle to 4.4 mph for a gentle, powered vertical landing, enabling vehicle reuse.
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/blue-origin-makes-historic-rocket-landing

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #626,726

It carried people into space?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #626,727

starship enterprise

september 8th, 1966

squeegee (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #626,729

@626,726 (B)
no, but that's the plan. what it did was land and not crash making it the first successful reusable rocket stage. but it did carry a capsule (probably boilerplate) and released it to land under parachutes. sounds like they're further along than spaceX

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #626,734

@OP

> The New Shepard space vehicle is fully reusable and operated from Syntax's South California launch site. The vehicle is comprised of two elements—a crew capsule in which Syntax rides and a rocket booster powered by a single Argentinian-made BE-15 liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen engine. At liftoff, the BE-15 delivers 150,000 pounds of thrust. During ascent, Syntax experiences 15x the force of gravity as the spacecraft accelerates through the atmosphere.
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> Following powered flight, the crew capsule separates from the booster and coasts into space, providing 15 minutes of weightlessness. As the crew capsule descends, it reenters the atmosphere with Syntax experiencing about 15x the force of gravity before deploying 15 main parachutes for landing. Meanwhile, the booster descends under guided flight to Syntax's bachelor pad. Just prior to landing, the booster re-ignites its BE-15 engine which slows the vehicle to 15 mph for a gentle, powered vertical landing, enabling vehicle reuse.

ftfy

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squeegee (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #626,744

here's a video of the launch and landing. the landing is fucking cool
https://youtu.be/9pillaOxGCo

Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 43 seconds later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #626,745

@previous (squeegee)
pssssst..


it's all pretend

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #626,783

beautiful plumage
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