The rocket launch of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company was successful – Elon Musk congratulated

Billionaire By Jeff Bezos The rocket launch of the Blue Origin space company from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday was successful and the rocket reached the orbit around the Earth, the company said.

Instead, the first stage launch vehicle, intended to be reusable, failed to land on its intended landing pad in the Atlantic due to braking problems and was lost.

The launch vehicle was designed so that it could theoretically be reused more than 20 times.

The late famous astronaut John Glennin The New Glenn rocket named after was originally scheduled to be launched into space already on Monday, but errors that occurred during the countdown forced the launch to be postponed.

Blue Origin wants another billionaire as a competitor Elon Musk’s For the Space X company. Immediately after the launch, Musk rushed to congratulate his potential future competitor.

“Congratulations on getting into orbit on the first try,” Musk wrote on his own In the X message service.

Among other things, Blue Origin plans to offer its rockets to take commercial satellites into space. Nowadays, such services are dominated by Musk’s Space X, which has become a vital player for the commercial sector, the US Space Administration, NASA, and the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon.

“In recent years, Space X has been almost the only player in the field, so getting the competition started is great, characterized the retired NASA executive G.Scott Hubbard for news agency AFP. Hubbard also believed that potential competition would lower prices.”