Blue Origin lifts the veil ... a bit

> From slashdot.org:

Science: Jeff Bezos's Space Company Reveals Some Secrets
Space
Posted by Hemos on Monday June 13, @10:45AM
from the getting-some-details dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Jeff Bezos's commercial spaceflight
company, Blue Origin, has kept its plans secret to better compete with
rivals such as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. But in order to
build its launch facility in West Texas, it has revealed some details
of its future operations: Blue Origin's Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)
will carry three or more passengers on suborbital, ballistic
trajectories to altitudes in excess of 325,000 feet above sea level.
It will launch vertically and land vertically, and will use hydrogen
peroxide and kerosene as propellants. It will operate autonomously
under control of on-board computers, with no ground control. Blue
Origin plans a maximum rate of 52 launches per year."

http://www.blueorigin.com/
http://www.blueorigin.com/web_description.htm

    Michael

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