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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 20 мин. назад

Escape motor fired. Let's see how New Shepard responds in this extreme test.

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 25 мин. назад

Touchdown of the booster!

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 24 мин. назад

Touchdown of the crew capsule!

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BlueOrigin завершила трансляцию пуска

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Запись трансляции Blue Origin Test Flight 9

Replay of Mission 9 Webcast

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Трансляция началась 1 час назад

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Main events of the test

New Shepard High-Altitude Escape Motor Test

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Опубликовано: 18 июл. 2018 г.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 4 мин. назад

Blue Origin takes another step toward launching people on short, suborbital trips into space with a successful high-altitude escape test Wednesday over West Texas. Full story: https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/07/18/blue-origin-new-shepard-mission-9/ ...

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https://ria.ru/science/20180718/1524895496.html

Blue Origin вновь испытала суборбитальную ракету New Shepard

19:24 18.07.2018

ВАШИНГТОН, 18 июл – РИА Новости. Частная компания Blue Origin провела очередное успешное испытание суборбитальной ракеты New Shepard, в ходе которого опробовала технологию экстренной эвакуации экипажа, компания вела прямую трансляцию запуска.

Беспилотный старт ракеты состоялся с площадки в штате Техас утром в среду. Ракета, оснащенная жидкостным ракетным двигателем ВЕ-3, подняла капсулу, в которой в будущем будут совершать полеты космические туристы, на высоту около 120 километров. В ходе старта компания впервые испытала технологию, которая будет использоваться для экстренного возвращения экипажа на Землю на случай аварийного старта. На высоте около 76 тысяч метров был включен двигатель капсулы экипажа, предназначенный для смягчения входа капсулы в атмосферу Земли при экстренной посадке.

Приблизительно через семь минут после запуска многоразовая ракета совершила мягкую вертикальную посадку на Землю, вскоре приземление на парашютах совершила и капсула с манекеном Skywalker.

На борту аппарата к границе космоса и Земли помимо оснащенного всевозможными датчиками манекена побывала другая полезная нагрузка в виде научных экспериментов и даже личных вещей сотрудников Blue Origin.

В компании заявили, что испытание, девятое по счету, прошло успешно. Предыдущий восьмой полет состоялся в конце апреля.

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Blue Origin рассчитывает осуществить первый запуск человека в космос до конца 2018 года и начать коммерческие полеты туристов в 2019 году. По технологии компании, по достижении заданной высоты капсула отделяется от ракеты, которая возвращается на землю. Капсула после отделения несколько минут летит в зоне невесомости, а затем опускается на парашютах. В стенах капсулы — большие трапецевидные окна. Она может нести шесть человек. Свое название комплекс получил в честь первого американского астронавта Алана Шепарда, совершившего суборбитальный полет. Впоследствии он был командиром корабля "Аполлон-14", модуль которого совершил посадку на Луну.

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https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-successfully-tests-escape-system-in-latest-new-shepard-launch/

Blue Origin successfully tests escape system in latest New Shepard launch
by Jeff Foust — July 18, 2018


Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifts off on its ninth test flight July 17 from the company's West Texas test site. Credit: Blue Origin webcast

FARNBOROUGH, England — Blue Origin conducted a successful test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle July 18 that demonstrated its crew capsule escape system.

The vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas test site at 11:11 a.m. Eastern. The launch, the ninth test flight in the overall New Shepard development program, was announced a day in advance by the company.

The vehicle's propulsion module boosted the crew capsule on a standard trajectory. About 20 seconds after the capsule separated, the capsule fired its solid-propellant escape motor in a planned test of its performance at high altitudes.

The motor performed as expected, giving the capsule an extra boost and setting an altitude record of 118.8 kilometers before landing by parachute 11 minutes after liftoff. The propulsion module, about 30 meters away from the crew capsule when the motor fired, was unaffected by the test and made a powered vertical landing on a pad near the launch site.

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"It's an important test in our march towards flying humans into space, which hopefully will be soon," Ariane Cornell, head of astronaut strategy and sales at Blue Origin, during a company webcast of the test.

While this flight was primarily intended to demonstrate the vehicle's escape system, the crew capsule carried eight research and technology demonstration payloads, similar to what the vehicle has done on previous suborbital test flights.

Those payloads some that flew previously, like the Schmitt Space Communicator developed by Solstar, a New Mexico company seeking to demonstrate the use of wifi communications technologies in space. Another reflown payload was an electromagnetic field experiment from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, previous versions of which went on the sixth and seventh test flights of the vehicle.

Another payload offered an unusual synergy with another part of Blue Origin. Thai company mu Space, which ordered a launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital rocket in 2017, included a package with several experiments from universities and organizations in Thailand.

"We are excited to join the upcoming New Shepard flight. We are really curious how microgravity affects the structure and properties of things, and we hope this flight will help us understand the science behind it," said James Yenbamroong, chief executive and founder of mu Space, in a preflight statement.

Another experiment, Granular Anisotropic Gases, was developed by Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany and funded by the German space agency DLR. The flight of experiment was arranged Olympiaspace, a European "commercial space agency" that took care of logistical and regulatory matters for the payload.

This launch was the ninth for the New Shepard program, and the third for this particular combination of crew capsule and propulsion module. The next flight, Cornell said, will feature "finished customer interiors" like those that will be used on commercial flights of the vehicle, intended to carry up to six people.

Blue Origin has provided only vague schedules about when human flights would begin, with company officials saying recently they anticipated starting to fly humans on test flights by the end of this year. The company has yet to start selling tickets for the vehicle and has not established an official price for those flights.

Cornell didn't offer a timetable for crewed flights beyond "soon" during the webcast but said they could begin "after a couple more tests."

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Jeff Bezos‏Подлинная учетная запись @JeffBezos 8 мин. назад

Crew Capsule looks great even after it was pushed hard by the escape test. Astronauts would have had an exhilarating ride and safe landing. Great engineering and the lucky boots worked again @BlueOrigin #GradatimFerociter