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https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/payload-manifest-on-mission-9

News | Jul 17, 2018

PAYLOAD MANIFEST ON MISSION 9

An awesome feature of New Shepard is its modular interior design. While in the future it will feature six seats to fly people, we're already flying science and education experiments for microgravity research.

On Mission 9, we welcome our third round of payload customers from commercial companies, universities and space agencies. They will share the cabin with Blue Origin's Mannequin Skywalker for their flight to space.

Below is a selection of customers slated to fly on Mission 9:

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Schmitt Space Communicator  Xperimental (SC1-x)
Solstar (Santa Fe,  NM), developed with private funding and with support from NASA's Flight Opportunities Program

On New Shepard Mission 8, Solstar demonstrated the first commercial WiFi in space. On this reflight, they will take advantage of the Crew Capsule's high altitude escape and continue testing WiFi access throughout the flight.

GAGa (Granular  Anisotropic Gases)
Otto-von-Guericke  University (Magdeburg, Germany) with end-to-end service provider OLYMPIASPACE
(Darmstadt, Germany) and funding from German space agency, DLR

The GAGa payload investigates the statistics of granular gases, dilute collections of solid grains that interact by random collisions. Data from GAGa on New Shepard Mission 9 will help validate existing theoretical models and contribute to understanding the dynamics of related systems like avalanches and cosmic dust clouds.

Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2 (SFEM-2)
NASA Johnson Space  Center (Houston, TX)

SFEM-2 was first flown on Mission 8 of New Shepard, and will collect additional data on Mission 9. The experiment will record vehicle conditions including cabin pressure, temperature, CO2, acoustic conditions, and acceleration.

Condensed Droplet  Experiment for NASA in Sub-Orbital Spaceflight (ConDENSS)
Purdue University  (West Lafayette, IN), funded through NASA Flight Opportunities Program

ConDENSS will examine the behavior of small droplets of water in order to support the development of small and efficient heat transfer systems for spaceflight. These systems, called phase change heat transfer systems, provide more uniform surface temperatures and higher power capacities.

APL Electromagnetic  Field Experiment
Johns Hopkins  University Applied Physics Laboratory, funded through NASA Flight Opportunities Program

This experiment marks the first flight of the JANUS 2.1 platform with sensors to monitor magnetic fields and ambient pressure inside the vehicle. Previous versions of JANUS were flown on New Shepard Missions 6 and 7.

Vibration Isolation Platform  Data Logger
Controlled Dynamics, funded  through NASA Flight Opportunities Program

VIP DL is a technology demo for an active stabilization platform that aims to allow the most sensitive payloads flying on New  Shepard to be isolated from ambient vibrations, allowing for even higher precision microgravity studies.

mu Space-1
mu Space Corporation (Bangkok,  Thailand)

The first of Blue Origin's New Glenn customers to purchase a slot on New Shepard, mu Space's payload includes an assortment of scientific and medical items, several textile materials they plan to use on their future space suit and apparel, and other special articles for their community partners.

Blue Origin "Fly My  Stuff"
A special addition to the Mission 9 payload manifest is a suite of payloads from Blue Origin employees as a part of our internal "Fly My Stuff" program.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/07/18/blue-origin-new-shepard-mission-9/

Blue Origin plans high-altitude escape test on suborbital launch Wednesday
July 18, 2018 | Stephen Clark


Blue Origin's New Shepard booster on its launch pad in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin

A team of engineers in West Texas is preparing Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard booster for launch Wednesday on an uncrewed test flight aimed at demonstrating a key safety feature for space tourists and scientists riding on future rockets soaring to the edge of space.

Blue Origin, owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to webcast Wednesday's test flight, which is set for takeoff at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT; 9 a.m. CDT) from the company's sprawling test site north of Van Horn, Texas, around 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of El Paso.

Wednesday's flight will be the ninth by a New Shepard rocket, and the third using Blue Origin's most recent model of the single-stage vehicle, which debuted in December and made its second launch and landing in April.

The reusable New Shepard booster is designed to take off from a launch pad, climb to the internationally-recognized boundary of space at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers), and land nearby with rocket thrust and aerobrakes.

A crew capsule mounted on top of the New Shepard rocket will carry experiments and a dummy nicknamed "Mannequin Skywalker" to simulate the experience passengers will see on future flights. On a standard mission, the craft separates from the rocket after engine cutoff and lands with the aid of parachutes.

On Wednesday's flight, Blue Origin says it will push the New Shepard rocket to its limits with a high-altitude escape motor test. If successful, the demonstration is expected to move the company a step closer to flying people — first its own employees, then paying passengers — on trips to space lasting several minutes, offering the experience of weightlessness and spectacular views.

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Blue Origin officials said in April the New Shepard could fly with people for the first time by the end of this year, followed by commercial riders. But the company has not set a firm timetable for the start of crewed test flights, or the launch of commercial services directed at the space tourism and suborbital research markets.

Blue Origin has not started selling tickets for seats on commercial New Shepard flights, but Reuters reported last week the flight opportunities are expected to sell for between $200,000 and $300,000. Blue Origin responded to the report, saying the company has not set ticket prices, and does not plan to sell rides until some time after New Shepard makes its first test flight with humans on-board.

In a brief statement announcing Wednesday's flight, Blue Origin offered no further details on the objectives or the technical parameters for the planned high-altitude escape motor test. Blue Origin accomplished a low-altitude abort test with a previous version of the New Shepard vehicle in October 2016, proving the capsule's solid-fueled abort motor could get passengers away from a catastrophic in-flight failure.

Experiments hitching a ride on the test flight Wednesday include a privately-developed in-cabin WiFi transmitter, and a package of NASA sensors to measure cabin pressure, temperature, carbon dioxide levels, acoustic conditions, and acceleration inside the crew capsule. There are also science experiments from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Purdue University, and Otto von Guericke University and Olympiaspace in Germany.

Other items aboard the flight include a NASA-funded vibration damping system to allow for more precise experiments in microgravity, an assortment of scientific, medical and textile materials from the Thai startup mu Space, and an allotment of mementos and other items provided by Blue Origin employees.

Blue Origin is developing a much bigger rocket, called New Glenn, as an orbital launcher. The New Glenn could launch on its maiden flight from Cape Canaveral by the end of 2020.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 20 мин. назад

ARTICLE: Blue Origin to push New Shepard safety regime with ninth test -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/07/blue-origin-new-shepard-nine-test/ ...

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 10 мин. назад

It's launch day! New Shepard is looking good on the pad after rollout this morning. T-2 hours to launch. Lift off time 9:00 am CT / 14:00 UTC. Live webcast starts T-20 on http://blueorigin.com 

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 6 мин. назад

Mission 9 launch target now 10:00 am CT / 15:00 UTC.

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 4 мин. назад

On Mission 9, we're firing the crew capsule escape motor at the highest altitude ever. We are stressing the rocket to test that astronauts can get away from an anomaly at any time during flight. Live webcast starts T-20 on http://www.blueorigin.com 

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 3 мин. назад

New Shepard takes flight in T-27 minutes. Show starts in 10 minutes on http://www.blueorigin.com  with our host @ArianeCornell

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 22 мин. назад

The @blueorigin New Shepard vehicle (Rocket 3, Capsule 2) is being prepared for a suborbital flight from the West Texas launch site, which will include a high altitude test of the emergency escape motor. This will be New Shepard mission 9.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 22 мин. назад

The escape motor will fire 20 seconds after spacecraft separation to avoid interference with the booster.

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