Blue Origin successfully launches - and lands - rocket

[thesolar65]

so blue origin had been more ore less silently developing while the charisma of elon musk and the dragon took all the attention to spacex.



interesting that be-3 uses liquid-oxygen/liquid-hydrogen when spacex has been using liquid-oxgyen/kerosene for the falcon 9's, though the next versions of both spacex and blue origin use liquid-methane/liquid-oxygen.

i wonder if lox/lh can be actually a simpler, universal fuel combination until a safe, room-temperature fuel can be found.

also, the "blue origin" flight test rocket uses a single engine as against the nine engines of the falcon-9's... though i did not understand one thing - the vid i have quoted has a descending rocket with two engines... is that a real vid or a animation??

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i was also wondering about the cup-shape upper structure of the rocket... it looks nice but is unusual...

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and then there is the question of the "new shepard" capsule descending on parachute unlike the dragon v2 which would mainly make a powered descent with parachute as backup.



you are right.

and after the spaceship-2 crash last year they have gone silent.

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@Aminroop @thesolar65 @WAJsal @Zibago @django @Nilgiri

Time to save some money for a last wish!!

 

[Zibago]

yes, that should have soon led to a human space program in pakistan, especially in collaboration with china which had a human program in the 70's[1], but the top political leadership of pakistan wasn't very ambitious it seems and was more oriented towards nationalistic military goals.

it is a tragedy that what achievements the american or western private companies are gaining in the space tourism and travel field, with their limited money, the governments of india, pakistan and iran are not able to do despite huge government funding and thousands of phd's and engineers... why the difference??

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reference...

[1] http://www.astronautix.com/articles/chidoors.htm



yes, i understand that lox/lh needs bigger facilities and the launch rocket becomes complicated, hence my question.

After Wlady no one took our space program seriously his dream was shattered by his succesors

 

[Nilgiri]

After Wlady no one took our space program seriously his dream was shattered by his succesors

Not true!

Satellite to help promote education: Musharraf launches Paksat-I - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

 

[proud_indian]

Not true!

Satellite to help promote education: Musharraf launches Paksat-I - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

tell me you did it intentionally

 

[Nilgiri]

tell me you did it intentionally

 

[Zibago]

Not true!

Satellite to help promote education: Musharraf launches Paksat-I - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

Actually if we continued his policies we wouldve launched our own satellite from sonmiani