How Amazon Plans to Take Down SpaceX
There’s a new space race coming, and this time it’s all about data
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7 min readDec 3, 2020
Sixty seconds and five miles is all it takes to break the sound barrier. For another minute the rocket accelerates — and then the engines cut and gravity takes over. One minute more, now sixty miles high, the rocket gently touches the edge of space and begins the long fall back to Earth. Two minutes later New Shepard is back on solid ground, gently guided down by parachutes.