While Blue Origins' accomplishment was also impressive, it is nowhere near as ambitious a project as the one SpaceX is doing. Blue Origin wants to take people (not payloads) to the edge of space (not orbit itself). More... http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9793220/blue-origin-vs-spacex-rocket-landing-jeff-bezos-elon-musk
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Darren, you just sabotaged my work! ;-) > Thank you! > > Just last week I saw this earlier launch: > https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28539-watch-blue-origins-surprise-rocket-launch-and-safe-landing/ > > Igor > > > > Darren Addy Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:27:22 -0800 wrote: > > If you didn't see it on the news, I watched this live online last > night and it was so impressive. It's rare to get "goosepimple moments" > in life, but this was certainly one of them: > > > This jumps to the return of the first stage to the landing pad: > https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=32m24s > > And a shot of it landing taken from a helicopter: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBE8ocOkAQ > It's like something out of a Marvin the Martian cartoon. > > Here is the darkness of Stage 1 engine shutdown, followed by ignition > of Stage 2 engine: > https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=25m20s > > Here is the launch of the 11 satellites: > https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=37m25s > > Camera is on the side with 6, you don.t see the 5 on the other side > being ejected at the same time (in pairs, until the final one). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
