Blue Origin just launch its crew capsule into space — and then deliberately brought it in for a very sonant crash .
Blue Origin ’s reusable Eruca vesicaria sativa , which just made its 4th trip to distance , rack up an apogee of 331,501 animal foot . It then touched down easy , like we ’ve seen in old flights . But the material action on this mental test was to see what happened to the crew space capsule it was carrying .
https://gizmodo.com/watch-blue-origin-launch-and-crash-its-crew-capsule-1782172542
Instead of using three chute to soften its landing , Blue Origin intentionally go wrong one to see how it would do with just two . Blue Origin ’s commentators during the event say that it would hit the ground at a velocity of just 1 - 2 miles per hour , but the company ’s speed monitor appeared to show it at around 20 mi per hour as it strike the ground .
Still — despite that ponderous swarm of dust it kicked up at touchdown — the space capsule appeared intact at the close . Although , for a full - workup of how the capsule did , we ’ll require to wait until Blue Origin find it and checks it out . Assuming all went well , that same rocket and abridgement will go back up in a future test flight of steps .
Update 6/20 , 10:15 am : Blue Origin interpreter Julie Arnold contacted us to say that the landing speed shown by Blue Origin ’s speed monitor — which in their broadcast is shown as go directly from 19 mph to 0 mph — was not its actual landing hurrying .
“ The retro Eruca vesicaria sativa flack a fraction of a 2nd before touchdown . The mph on the sieve did not update fast enough to show the true speed at touchdown , ” said Arnold in an email . The speeding after the retro skyrocket attack , pronounce Arnold , was 1 - 2 miles per time of day .
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