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Amazon will be able to fly into space - testing a new engine project Blue Origin completed
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Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos Tuesday announced the successful completion of the development of the rocket engine BE-3 project Blue Origin. Flight tests the company plans to start this year. Jeffrey Bezos - one of the rich, including the development of private spacecraft.
Engine BE-3, which tests began in 2013 , runs on liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. They planned to equip future suborbital ship New Shepard, which should deliver more passengers and payload to an altitude of 100 km. After the successful organization of the flight of the ship, the company plans to rework costs engine that will allow him to the end of the decade in orbit satellites. In the meantime, the new ship will be tested in harness with the new engine. The date for the tests did not indicate Bezos.
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NASA, Space Shuttle flights curtailed in 2011, is struggling to develop private space program , to cease to depend on Russian rockets that Americans enjoy to deliver its astronauts to the ISS. Recently announced it was completed tender Commercial Crew , which won the Boeing and SpaceX . Bezos is developing its engine is in collaboration with the company Boeing. In this NASA shares their experience with the project .
First space robin among the privateers became apparatus SpaceShipOne , developed under the program launched by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. He rose into the sky and then, on the suborbital altitude, more than 10 years ago. Then joined the project head of Virgin Group Richard Branson (SpaceShipTwo). Ship in 2010 successfully passed the test as long as fell to the ground , which resulted in the death of the pilot. The assurances of Branson is virtually no impact on the development of the project.
Keep up with Branson, the billionaire Elon Musk dreamer (project SpaceX), booster which Falcon 9 also since 2010 successfully performs test flights with the ship Dragon. Unlike its competitors, this ship has successfully went into space and even docked with the ISS.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/248728/
