New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight

Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:24PM (#10622472)

TLDR:

Blue Origin did a soft landing from above the Karman line. SpaceX is trying to do that from orbit. The former involves speeds 10x less and energies 100x less than the latter.

Still a hard thing to do no matter how you look at it, but the two goals are not trivial to compare.

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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by ecobiker on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:14PM (#10622848)

I see so many people complaining about the comparison but no explained it more clearly, thanks! Quick question though, isn't SpaceX trying to land just the first stage?

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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:35PM (#10623025)

I believe they want to eventually land and recover all pieces.

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Re:New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight by jccooper on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:36PM (#10623031)

Well, kind of. The F9-1 would be on it's way to orbit, but not there. It's a first stage after all. It would certainly have much higher energy, and is huge in comparison.

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