The American company Blue Origin, owned by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, made its third suborbital flight on December 11. A video appeared on the network that was recorded from inside the capsule.
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Details of the third suborbital flight:
- the flight took place from the Corn Ranch launch pad in Texas;
- this was the first flight involving six crew members;
- the flight lasted 10 minutes and 13 seconds, and the maximum speed of the rocket was 3,611 thousand kilometers per hour.
We add that a suborbital flight is a flight along a trajectory, at a speed not exceeding the first space flight. (the speed required for the spacecraft to enter orbit).
Today, only SpaceX has the ability to deliver tourists to Earth’s orbit.
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