Specifically, he said, the ship will be central to the first launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The announcement was made during the 13th Aerospace Futures Alliance Summit, which took place on October 10th, 2018. However, SpaceX successfully challenged the patent, citing how others had already proposed the idea.īlue Origin CEO Bob Smith recently confirmed that the vessel will serve as the landing ship for Blue Origin’s first-stage boosters.
In fact, Blue Origin beat him to the punch by filing for the patent to land ships at sea back in 2010. To be fair, Elon Musk was not the first to come up with the idea of launching a rocket from a coastal launch site and then landing it on a ship at sea. The vessel measures 182.6 meters (600 feet) in length and 25.52 meters (84 feet) in width and has a overall internal volume of 21,104 metric tons (23,263 US tons). Credit: NASA/SpaceXĪccording to MarineTraffic, the Stena Freighter is a 14- year old ro-ro (roll-on, roll-off) cargo vessel built by Stena Traffic – one of the largest ferry operators in the world.
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There, it will remain in drydock and receive upgrades before being delivered to Blue Origin’s facilities in Port Canaveral, Florida.įirst stage of a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket on the autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) Of Course I Still Love You on April 8th, 2016. Since that time, the vessel made the journey from Spain to Pensacola, Florida, where it berthed last weekend (Oct. The purchase of the Stena Freighter was first announced in August of this year. Much like SpaceX’s Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships (ASDS), this vessel will be used to retrieve spent rockets after they deliver their cargo to space.
To this end, the company has acquired a used Danish vessel known as Stena Freighter, which recently arrived in Florida. In order to ensure they remain competitive, Blue Origin indicated that it would be following SpaceX’s lead by recovering its first-stage rocket boosters at sea. And between the largest companies – SpaceX and Blue Origin – competition is heating up to see who will secure the most lucrative contracts and make it to Mars first!
With every passing year, more and more small launch providers are being founded. NewSpace) is playing a role like never before. One of the defining characteristics of the modern space age is the way private aerospace companies (aka.
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