12-17-2017, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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I just noticed that their CGI video of their New Glenn orbital launch vehicle (see: www.blueorigin.com/#youtubeBTEhohh6eYk [from: www.blueorigin.com ]) shows its first stage landing on a *moving* drone ship, even hovering briefly and centering itself before touching down on a landing circle on deck, with the Blue Origin motto--"Gradatim Ferociter--surrounding it in circular lettering. (Maybe that's a little "tweak" to Elon Musk, since SpaceX's drone ships hold station for the Falcon 9 first stages to land on them... :-) ). I'm a little surprised that the video doesn't show a tortoise--depicted from directly above--in the center of the landing circle (or maybe two of them, on either side of the circle, since their company logo features two tortoises in an heraldic depiction). |