Elon Musk just pointed out a giant problem with Jeff Bezos' historic rocket launch

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin just successfully tested the world's first reusable rocket, but there's a huge catch, and rival rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk is making sure it doesn't go unnoticed.

As Musk pointed out on Twitter this morning, Bezos' rocket is only the world's first reusable suborbital rocket.

During the test flight on November 24, Blue Origin's Blue Shepard rocket reached about 62 miles over the Earth, going at a speed of Mach 3.72, which would be enough for a few minutes of weightlessness.

But, as Musk pointed out on Twitter, there's a big difference between "space" and "orbital." A suborbital rocket doesn't pack nearly enough punch to actually launch a spacecraft:

That means the Blue Origin rocket landing was much easier to pull off than all the so far unsuccessful attempts Musk's SpaceX company has made:

In other words, Bezos' rocket would need to be about 100 times more powerful to actually launch something into orbit.

So Bezos may have won the warm up round, but Musk's company could still pull off the world's first reusable orbital rocket.

Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through hispersonal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

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