The head of Blue Origin and Amazon, Jeff Bezos, showed in Instagram a video of a new factory in Florida, where they will collect a heavy new-use orbital reusable rocket.

In recent months, Jeff Bezos began to disclose plans to create a large 82-meter-high 82-meter New Glenn orbital booster rocket that can lift a 45-tonne cargo to a low reference orbit and 13 tons into a geo-. According to the designers, the rocket will be reusable.

The size of the missile does not allow manufacturing it at an existing factory in Kent, Washington. Therefore, Blue Origin intends to divide production: the BE-4 rocket engine will be produced at a plant in Huntsville, Alabama, and the assembly of the carrier will begin at a new factory in Florida. It is her that shows Bezos in Instagram.

"Construction of a production hall for a heavy carrier rocket New Glenn is in full swing," writes Bezos.

Until now, the construction of the missile was for Bezos an expensive hobby, in which in recent years the founder of Amazon has invested about $ 1 billion annually.. But if Blue Origin fulfills its promise and launches a reusable New Glenn (which, according to the company's promises, is capable of 100 flights), investments will pay off with interest, reports Ars Technica. The first launch of New Glenn is expected in late 2019 or, more likely, in 2020.

Source: High Tech.