Blue Origin‘s founder, Jeff Bezos, defined the inside workings of the New Glenn rocket’s touchdown process after the rocket’s profitable launch and touchdown final week.
Avoiding Impression When Touchdown
Taking to the social media platform X on Friday, the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder shared a video showcasing the touchdown of the New Glenn booster on the Jacklyn touchdown web site off the coast of Florida. “We nominally goal a couple of hundred ft away from Jacklyn to keep away from a extreme influence if engines fail to start out or begin slowly,” Bezos stated.
He added that Blue Origin would reduce on the “conservatism” as the event of the rocket progresses additional.
New Glenn Updates, SpaceX’s Expedited Lunar Timeline
Within the buildup to final week’s profitable mission, the corporate revealed a brand new booster stage for the New Glenn rocket, which might assist it play a vital function in NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers) mission, which can research the Pink Planet’s interactions with Photo voltaic Winds.
Elsewhere, Elon Musk’s firm SpaceX shared an expedited timeline of its Lunar mission and Starship rocket, which is a vital facet of NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon, amid Transportation Secretary after which Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy‘s feedback about presumably opening up bidding for the mission to SpaceX’s rivals.
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