{"id":19390,"date":"2016-05-11T00:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-and-spacex-revisit-their-latest-rocket-landings-in-must-see-videos\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:58:03","slug":"blue-origin-and-spacex-revisit-their-latest-rocket-landings-in-must-see-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-and-spacex-revisit-their-latest-rocket-landings-in-must-see-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248710\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-248710\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510-ventcam-630x360.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Origin rocket cam view\" width=\"630\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510-ventcam-630x360.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510-ventcam-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510-ventcam-1240x708.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510-ventcam.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-248710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from the \u201cvent cam\u201d on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape during an April 2 flight, plus a \u201ctoasty brown\u201d ring fin at the top of the frame. (Credit: Blue Origin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in newly released videos from Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin and Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, showing new perspectives on their most recent rocket landings.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s video recaps the April 2 flight of its New Shepard suborbital space vehicle, as seen from a camera pointing out from one of the booster\u2019s vents. The 2:38 clip begins with a shot of the curving blue Earth below the blackness of space&nbsp;\u2013 a view that paying passengers could see as early as 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the supersonic descent back through the atmosphere. If you look closely at the full-frame, high-definition video, you might be able to pick out the Rio Grande River running through the West Texas landscape surrounding Blue Origin\u2019s launch and landing site.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Flight 3: GH2 Vent Cam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JNPpdHYD8jo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bezos, the Seattle billionaire who founded Blue Origin as well as the Amazon retail powerhouse, pointed out a detail you might have otherwise missed when he provided a sneak preview at last month\u2019s Space Symposium in Colorado:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big round structure at the top, which you can just barely see, is our ring fin, which \u2026 provides stability for re-entry. \u2026 The leading edge of the ring fin is going to marshmallow a nice toasty brown here. Peak G\u2019s on re-entry are about 5 G\u2019s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos said it cost about $2,000 to refurbish the New Shepard after the flight. That includes the cost of fixing the ring fin. \u201cThat leading edge will get sanded off, and we\u2019ll reapply thermal protection,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cWe never took the engine out of the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Three Camera Angles | Falcon 9 First Stage Landing on Droneship\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LHqLz9ni0Bo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SpaceX shared three more camera angles from last week\u2019s at-sea landing of its Falcon 9 first-stage booster \u2013 a high-energy touchdown that took place after the rocket sent a Japanese telecommunications satellite toward geosynchronous transit orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The 1:29 clip combines webcam views from the autonomous drone ship known as \u201cOf Course I Still Love You,\u201d which was stationed hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. After several days of transit time, the ship was brought back to shore Monday night&nbsp;at Port Canaveral, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the booster will be trucked to SpaceX\u2019s Florida processing facility, near Launch Pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. It\u2019ll join two other first-stage boosters that made successful landings, and if the hardware checks out, it could well be used again.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=729890136142585856&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2016%2Fblue-origin-spacex-revisit-rocket-landings-must-see-videos%2F&amp;sessionId=9dca55e5e0f391bed451451e7daaf835c2a634fc&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"729890136142585856\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782804633298625307=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#SpaceX #Falcon9 returns to Port Canaveral after #JCSAT14 mission stay tuned to @SpaceflightIns for updates! pic.twitter.com\/5EEkhZQeVf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SpaceFlight Insider (@SpaceflightIns) May 10, 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rocket reusability is important to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and to Bezos as well. Both of them say being able to reuse hardware will drive down the cost of access to space, just as reusable airplanes help keep the cost of commercial aviation relatively low.<\/p>\n<p>Cheaper spaceflight should bring both billionaires\u2019 space dreams closer to reality. Bezos\u2019 goal is to have millions of people living and working in space, while Musk aims to turn humanity into a multiplanet species by sending thousands of settlers to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A view from the \u201cvent cam\u201d on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape during an April 2 flight, plus a \u201ctoasty brown\u201d ring fin at the top of the frame. (Credit: Blue Origin) Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? 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