Blue Origin, a company owned by Jeff Bezos, has successfully, for the very first time, managed to land a rocket booster.
Once repeatable, that reuse of boosters could dramatically slice the cost of launching payloads. Some think a reduction to about 20 percent of today's launch cost is possible.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos Company) Makes First-Ever Landing of a Reusable Rocket Booster
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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