Amazon founder announced the choice of the place where will be built, and take off his missiles
Jeff Bezos unveils Cape Canaveral as base of commercial space program. blueorigin http://t.co/HXFJmBmwNP pic.twitter.com/UDbtdYuanC - Ahiza Garcia (ahiza_garcia) 15 September 2015 blockquote> Jeff Bezos, founder of retail giant Amazon сегодня announced , the plant for the production of missiles and launch pad will be built in Florida. They will be located adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center.
Space Center JFK - a complex of facilities for launching spacecraft and mission control, owned by NASA and located on Merritt Island in Brevard County Florida USA. The center is located in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral.
$ 200 million will be spent on construction of the plant right next to the Space Center, and the rocket will start with a site that is near there, which previously used air forces of the United States.
Of course, the financing of the space program Bezos did not pull alone. The bulk of the investment comes from public sources, which is why the plant will be built right near by NASA. Florida has spent $ 2 billion to finance the space industry. Just last week there opened assembly line of commercial satellites from Boeing.
In April this year, Blue Origin conducted successful flight tests of a new rocket engine BE-3. And in May, it has already been tested booster based on this engine. During the tests, the rocket successfully reached the calculated height, after which it was separated from the landing capsule, landed softly later.
Bezos said that the new company will be the launch pad test and a new version of the rocket engines BE-4. Engines company is developing in close collaboration with United Launch Alliance - a joint venture between old partners and experts on familiarization state budgets , Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
Jeff Bezos with his private space company Blue Origin competes in the field of space conquest with American companies SpaceX Elon Musk and the British Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/262532/