Blue Origin rocket successfully took off and sat for the third time

Yesterday reusable ship New Shepard, test by Amazon, has made the third successful take-off and soft landing. The capsule, which should be a team of astronauts, was put into space to a height of 103, 8 km, and then gradually descended to Earth by parachute. Reusable rocket made a successful vertical landing.

Flawless BE-3 restart and perfect booster landing. CC chutes
deployed. @ BlueOrigin- Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 2, 2016
 The first successful landing of a rocket in November 2015. Re-launching and landing took place in January 2016. Then the New Shepard became the first rocket that was launched twice, both times reached the line of his pocket and made a soft controlled landing. Now she holds the record in the triple successful launch and landing.



The rocket landed at a speed of 7, 7 km / h. Restarting the engine at this time was carried out at a relatively low altitude of about 1200 meters. If something went wrong, the rocket would have fallen on the surface of the Earth in 6 seconds

Crew Capsule is locked & amp.; ready for flt. Tortoises mark successful CC missions. #LaunchLandRepeat @BlueOrigin Pic.twitter.com/akPaP9EFIu- Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 2, 2016
 So far, there were no people in the capsule, but this time she carried the two sets, designed for experiments in microgravity conditions provided by the two universities.

University of Central Florida has put experiment on the observation of the behavior of the dust medium in which the ball hits the Hard Material:



Southwest Research Institute studied the behavior of the rocky environment in microgravity:



The main "competitor" in terms of reusable rockets, SpaceX project, yet failed only one successful landing of the launch vehicle family Falcon 9. It is true that New Shepard rocket Falcon 9, and a variety of tasks, and consequently, different design. Purpose of the Falcon 9, - space transportation, and Blue Origin wants to be engaged in space tourism. In addition, the Falcon 9 is to display goods on the orbit, and the New Shepard will make suborbital flights. Therefore, the task facing the project SpaceX, was initially difficult.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/273840/