hello wonderful person this is Anton and in this video we're going to briefly talk
about the announcement from Jeff Bezos about this the blue moon and this of
course came as a surprise to many people because nobody really expected that Jeff
Bezos would announce that his plan is to now go to the moon and create a lander
that will be capable of delivering approximately six and a half tons of
materials this is it this is what you see on the screen right now and this is
what he refers to as the blue moon in this video I wanted to go through some
of these specifications that I was able to kind of find out about but they're
not 100% accurate yet because very little is known about this particular
lender so what do we know about the blue moon rule first of all we of course know
what it's going to look like which is this right here what you see on the
screen and we also know that um the engine that is going to use known as be7
is very similar to the engine of a rocket that they've been testing for the
last two years known as a new Shepard so the engine here is not as powerful as
be3 as it's known this be7 is a lot less powerful because moon's
gravity is not as strong as Earth and here it's going to use a combination of
hydrogen and oxygen to essentially try to slow down and land onto the surface
of the Moon very very gently and this is actually the key here Jeff besos
specifically mentioned that the goal of this craft is to have a very gentle very
very soft landing and so this is what they're going to be testing and
designing and the main idea is to deliver various types of cargo up to six
and a half tonnes of cargo as you can see here they even have a very simple
Rover that they will be sending to the moon in the next year's to test this and
eventually they are planning to send the astronauts to the moon as well using a
slightly modified version of the blue moon now this of course will probably
not happen for at least five years from now possibly even longer and the first
unmanned mission is planned for approximately two to three
years from when I'm making this video in other words were probably not going to
see any action until 2022 and that's because all of this will be launched
using this beautiful rocket known as new Glenn now this is a bit of a speculation
but very very um I would say sound speculation because this rocket is meant
for delivering things to the moon and if we working on this rocket since 2015 now
new Glenn is a very very interesting rocket it's meant to compete with SpaceX
but mostly um with heavy launches specifically Falcon Heavy and that's
because this rocket is way more powerful it's about two-and-a-half times more
powerful than Falcon Heavy and has a very similar launch profile where after
the liftoff and after the ascent the first stage returns back and lands on a
moving platform while the secondary stage and pretty much everything else
gets discarded on the way and even though this is something that SpaceX has
already perfected and has been doing a pretty good job of doing this year after
year new Glenn is far from there specifically because they haven't even
tested a single launch yet and their first attempt is going to be most likely
next year um possibly even two years from now and also because this rocket is
so huge even compared to falcon heavy um this implies that there's potentially a
lot more chances for failure but because Jeff besos main company Amazon has so
much experience with automation they probably will not have as much trouble
as SpaceX simply because well if you've ever seen what the inside of Amazon what
your house looks like it's essentially all robots and they've done a really
good job at automating things and they will probably do a pretty good job at
automating these landings as well and similar to Falcon 9 this here has at
least seven of these really powerful engines this is actually one of the most
powerful engines ever produced and this so-called be4 engine is ridiculously
powerful it's actually been chosen by the United Launch Alliance as the
replacement for future rockets for NASA as well so this has become a very
successful engine if before it officially launched anything
this engine uses a combination of methane and oxygen and is approximately
four times more powerful than the engine from Falcon 9 rocket and just like
Falcon 9 instead of having nine of these it will have seven that will work in a
kind of a failure redundancy model where if one engine fails the rocket will
probably still continue and still be successful even with one engine that
doesn't work anymore and all of the launches will be done from the so called
Launch Complex 36 in Kennedy Space Center which is famous for all of the
pioneer missions that explore the outer planets and the Mariner missions that
went to Mars Venus and also mercury and the surveyor missions that landed on the
moon so it's a pretty famous launch platform and since 2015 it was leased by
the Blue Origin company to create this rocket to try to find a very effective
logistical way to essentially build the Rockets right right there on the spot
and then bring them to the launch pad and launch them consecutively because
Blue Origin has a very very unique plan that will most likely put a dent in
the plan of SpaceX to dominate the industry they're planning to create a
very efficient Amazon like delivery system of things to space and that's
their goal essentially they're trying to create a series of rockets and a series
of delivery devices that will be able to very cheaply and very effectively
deliver things to space deliver them into a high orbit low orbit and of
course the moon now they're not going to be competing with SpaceX for medium
sized or smaller deliveries and there's actually a lot of other companies that
will probably put a dent in SpaceX there as well but four delivers to the moon
and four deliveries to do stationary orbit or higher orbit there is a lot of
a lot of competition that this is going to create and because it's a company a
ran by Jeff Bezos who is known to create these very complex schemes I think Elon
Musk possibly has something to worry about here and interestingly this
particular launch complex was actually shared by
Blue Origin and another company known as moon Express but that company still
hasn't really developed as much as Blue Origin their goal is eventually to try
to find a way to mine things on the moon and to make a lot of profit by bringing
all of this material that is mined there back to earth but they're also not
really there just yet I think Blue Origin is a little bit
closer and so with the announcement of this very interesting lander that most
likely will become a standard for bringing things to the moon in the next
few years we have I guess a new competitor
space competitor and kind of the vision of the future here so what exactly are
these famous billionaires planning what exactly is going to happen in the next I
guess five to ten years well it looks like we're going back to the moon it
looks like it will be these private companies bringing us there and it's
very likely that we're going to be looking for a way to make profit from
this and if we can it's going to probably create a new moon race a new
space race any race - well first come first serve right and just like Amazon
for Blue Origin I think the main goal here is to create a very effective
logistic system where things can get delivered really fast really quickly
just like Amazon delivery although I guess this would be a kind of a new
level of delivery space delivery now I don't think they're planning to build a
new Amazon warehouse on the moon yet but I guess you never know right and by the
way there's a lot of other competition is going to be coming from other
countries like for example China very recently China has announced that they
have two competitors also building testing and actively developing self
landing Rockets so SpaceX um even though they were the first might not be the
best anymore they suddenly have a lot of competition
coming from all angles because of what they were able to create and anyway on
that note that's all I wanted to mention in this video hopefully in the next few
years we'll find out what exactly is being planned by Blue Origin and what is
their actual goal because all of this is just guesswork for now but it looks like
there's no doubt now that they go for the next 10 or so years
is to return back to the moon to possibly settle there and to possibly
create some kind of a financially sustainable business whether it happens
or not I guess we'll find out by 2030 or so for now though I actually have really
high hopes for this and these are really cool projects and hopefully in the next
few years who discover if it's successful for now that's it thank you
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