Rockets are usually destroyed on their maiden voyage. But now they can make a vertical landing and be resupplied for another trip, setting the stage for a new era in spaceflight.
Thousands of rockets flew into space, but not until 2015 it turned like this: It came upright on a landing strip, firing continuously to control its descent, almost as if a movie from its launch was being reproduced backwards. If this can be done regularly and the rockets can be replenished again and again, the space flight could become a hundred times cheaper. Rockets Reusable Breakthrough Rockets that can launch payloads into orbit and then land safely. Because it is important? Lowering the cost of the flight would open the door to many new efforts in space. Key players in the new space industry - SpaceX Blue Origin United Launch Alliance Two billionaires of technology made it possible. Jeff Bezos's blue origin first got off a landing in November; SpaceX by Elon Musk did it in December. Blue Origin expects to push tourists in capsules in space travel of four minutes, while SpaceX already launches satellites and missions of supply of space stations, but both need reusable rockets to improve the economy of the space flights.
Reusable Rockets
The explosion of objects in space has been costly because the rockets cost tens of millions of dollars and fly once before they burn in a free fall back through the atmosphere. SpaceX and Blue Origin instead bring yours down on the flip-flops, a trick that requires on-board software to shoot propellers and manipulate the flaps that slow or push the rockets at precise times. SpaceX has a harder job because the Blue Origin art is medium and fast and medium high and remains vertical, while SpaceX rockets have to change their horizontal position. A reminder of how many things can go wrong came in January, when SpaceX just lost a second landing because a rocket leg did not lock in place. Even so, it is now clear that the future of spaceflight will be far more interesting than the hangover of the Apollo era of the last 40 years.
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