RSS- The battle for Ocheretyne
- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Looks like a good launch and rocket recovery.
That’s a solid little rocket within its limited capabilities. I’m impressed with that clean burning rocket engine. It reminds me of alcohol stoves where you often have to put your hand over it to tell if the flame is lit. Too bad the thing has to look like a massive sex toy.
100 km high roller coaster ride, not nearly powerful enough to reach orbit. Blue Origin was founded 21 years ago and this is all they have to show for it.
Meanwhile SpaceX is building the most powerful rocket in human history, with more than twice the thrust of the legendary Saturn V, and it will be fully reusable. They’ve stacked the first full prototype (booster and second stage) at the beginning of this month and they will be ready to launch the first orbital test before the FAA will finish their environmental assessment. I really hope it will happen before year’s end.
This should put things in perspective:
https://imgur.com/1zfSVZu