Blue Origin

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 ч. назад

The @blueorigin New Shepard vehicle 3 was launched at 1405 UTC Jan 23 carrying New Shepard crew capsule 2 on its 3rd flight. Apogee was 106.9 km; flight time was 7m27s for the rocket and 10m11s for the capsule.


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Correction - 4th flight for both rocket 3 and Capsule 2.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/01/23/new-shepard-launches-nasa-experiments-to-space-aims-for-human-flights-this-year/

New Shepard launches NASA experiments to space, aims for human flights this year
January 23, 2019 | Stephen Clark


Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lifts off from West Texas on Wednesday. Credit: Blue Origin

Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched a package of NASA experiments to the edge of space Wednesday from West Texas with a suborbital New Shepard booster, then successfully recovered the reusable rocket and space capsule a few minutes later.

The single stage rocket, powered by a BE-3 engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, took off at 10:05 a.m. EST (9:05 a.m. CST; 1505 GMT) from Blue Origin's test site north of Van Horn, Texas, according to Ariane Cornell, a company sales director who anchored a video webcast of the mission.

After more than a month of delays caused by vehicle issues and bad weather, the New Shepard climbed to an altitude of more than 350,000 feet — nearly 107 kilometers — after firing the BE-3 engine for nearly two-and-a-half minutes. A capsule carrying the NASA research payloads separated from the New Shepard booster moments later, and the pair coasted toward apogee, the highest altitude of the mission, before descending back into the atmosphere.

The booster deployed air brakes to slow its descent, then reignited the BE-3 engine and extended landing legs to touch down on a landing pad around 2 miles (3 kilometers) from its launch location at the sprawling West Texas test site owned by Bezos.

A few minutes later, the capsule parachuted to a landing nearby to conclude the mission, which Blue Origin said lasted around 10 minutes, 15 seconds, from liftoff to capsule touchdown.


The New Shepard's BE-3 engine fires to slow down for landing. Credit: Blue Origin

Wednesday's launch was the 10th flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, and the fourth launch and landing by the reusable propulsion module currently used by the company. The first New Shepard was lost in a landing accident in 2015, and the second unit has been retired.

A fourth New Shepard rocket, designed for human flights, is undergoing flight preps at Blue Origin's facility in West Texas, officials said.

Blue Origin is taking a step-by-step approach to preparing for flights with passengers. The company's target market for suborbital flights includes wealthy space tourists and working scientists.

Cornell said Blue Origin plans to be ready to carry humans to space by the end of this year.

"We're aiming for the end of this year — by the end of this year — but as we said before, we're not in a rush," she said in the webcast of Wednesday's launch. "We want to take our time. We want to do this right.

"As you know at Blue Origin, we take the conservative approach, we are patient, we want to build for you guys the safest and most reliable human flight system," she said Wednesday.

"Believe me, if I could, I would jump on top of that rocket tomorrow," Cornell said Jan. 8 at an aerospace industry conference. We've already had several successful tests with New Shepard, and so I would love to go. But we're not selling tickets yet. We have not sel ected a price yet, despite what you might have read ... We haven't determined when we're going to sell tickets. We are so focused right now on testing New Shepard through and through."

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Blue Origin's main competitor in the suborbital space tourism market, Virgin Galactic founded by Richard Branson, has hundreds of would-be space fliers who have paid deposits on $250,000 tickets to ride aboard the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.


Blue Origin's capsule descends under parachutes. Credit: Blue Origin

Wednesday marked Blue Origin's first flight since July 18, when engineers demonstrated the vehicle's high-altitude abort capability.

The capsule's solid-fueled abort motor fired to quickly accelerate the craft away from the rocket, simulating the escape maneuver passengers would use to quickly get away from a failing booster at high altitude. Blue Origin accomplished a lower-altitude abort demonstration in 2016.

Cornell said Wednesday's launch, designated New Shepard-10, followed a "nominal flight profile," the same trajectory to be used for commercial research and space tourist flights.

On such flights, Cornell said passengers can expect to experience three or four minutes of weightlessness, along with spectacular views out of the capsule's six windows, which Blue Origin says are the largest to have ever flown in space. Up to six passengers will fly on a single launch.

Virgin Galactic flew its air-dropped SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space for the first time Dec. 13 with two test pilots at the controls.

The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane reached a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles, or 82.7 kilometers, on last month's test flight, above the 50-mile mark used by the U.S. Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration to determine who gets awarded astronaut wings. Blue Origin's New Shepard flights reach the 100-kilometer (62-mile) Kármán line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space.

Last month's SpaceShipTwo test flight was the first time a U.S. vehicle carrying people has flown above 50 miles since the last space shuttle mission in 2011.

Virgin Galactic plans to move SpaceShipTwo operations from a test site at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California to the new Spaceport America facility in New Mexico for regular commercial flights later this year.

Blue Origin earning revenue with launches carrying NASA payloads

Eight NASA-sponsored research experiments flew on Wednesday's New Shepard launch, meaning Blue Origin is already earning some revenue as New Shepard test flights continue preparing for crewed flights.

The experiments include payloads from universities and NASA centers examining the behavior of a "green" non-toxic fuel in microgravity, demonstrating a way to measure fuel levels in microgravity using sound waves, testing technology to cool electronics in space, and measuring the naturally-occurring electromagnetic fields inside and outside the spacecraft.

Other NASA payloads include a pair of planetary science investigations from the University of Central Florida to help scientists better understand how dust particles on other planets might respond to human and robotic contact, and to evaluate the performance of an asteroid sample retrieval mechanism in a low-gravity environment.

New Shepard also carried to space Wednesday an experimental imager that could be used to support future biological investigations on suborbital rockets, and a vibration isolation platform to protect experiments fr om the shaking and forces encountered in flight.

"These NASA supported experiments will help advance in-space propulsion technologies, habitation systems, science instruments and other capabilities crucial for exploration," said Jim Bridenstine, NASA's administrator.

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https://www.interfax.ru/world/647412

18:45, 23 января 2019
Ракета New Shepard совершила очередной успешный суборбитальный полет

Москва. 23 января. INTERFAX.RU - Американская компания Blue Origin в среду осуществила очередной успешный испытательный полет суборбитальной ракеты New Shepard, предназначенной для космического туризма.

По сообщению компании, старт был осуществлен с полигона в американском штате Техас. Это уже десятый пуск в истории New Shepard, который проводится в автоматическом режиме с ноября 2015 года.

На расчетной высоте около 100 км от ракеты отделилась капсула, предназначенная для размещения экипажа и пассажиров, которая затем приземлилась на парашютах. При этом ракета-носитель совершила вертикальную посадку.

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По словам представителей Blue Origin, места на корабле New Shepard предполагается продавать туристам за $300 тыс. На корабле смогут размещаться шесть туристов.

Blue Origin - американская частная аэрокосмическая компания, созданная основателем Amazon.com Джеффом Безосом. Компания развивает технологии для космического туризма. Для этой цели была создана одноступенчатая многоразовая ракета-носитель New Shepard с водородно-кислородным двигателем. В конце 2015 года компания впервые в истории успешно посадила на Землю побывавшую в космосе ракету. Спустя два месяца компания впервые повторно запустила в космос и посадила эту ракету. Затем была разработана и испытана пассажирская капсула с иллюминаторами. После отделения от ракеты капсула приземлялась на парашютах.

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/6032946

23 ЯНВ, 20:11
В США компания Blue Origin провела десятые испытания суборбитального корабля New Shepard

В компании сообщили, что полет прошел успешно

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 23 января. /ТАСС/. Компания Blue Origin провела в среду в штате Техас десятый испытательный полет разработанного ею суборбитального корабля New Shepard. Об этом сообщается в Twitter компании.

Как отметили в Blue Origin, капсула, которая в будущем будет предназначена для экипажа и пассажиров, приземлилась на парашютах. Носитель также совершил вертикальную посадку. В компании констатировали, что "по всей видимости, полет сегодня был в полной мере успешным". На борту New Shepard находились девять экспериментальных приборов, разработанных учеными ряда американских университетов, а также сотрудниками космических центров NASA.

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Десятый испытательный полет New Shepard первоначально предполагалось осуществить 18 декабря, позже его неоднократно откладывали, в том числе из-за технических неполадок и неблагоприятных погодных условий.

Как заявила 8 января глава отдела по стратегии и продажам Blue Origin Ариан Корнелл, компания намеревается отправить туристов в суборбитальный полет "в начале 2019 года". В июле 2018 года представители Blue Origin сообщили журналистам, что одно место на New Shepard предположительно будет стоить $200-300 тыс. Корабль сможет брать на борт шесть человек.

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jeffbezos A perfect day. New Shepard has now racked up 10 consecutive successful launches, 9 consecutive successful booster landings, 3 consecutive successful escape tests, and 11 consecutive successful crew capsule landings (including a pad escape). Today's mission was the 4th flight of this particular tail number -- all with minimal refurbishment between flights. Step by step, we're getting close to human flight. And all of this learning is being incorporated into New Glenn too. I did wear my lucky boots today, but I'm pretty sure it's actually the incredible @BlueOrigin team.
#GradatimFerociter #NeverGetsOld

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https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-successfully-flies-8-nasa-research-and-technology-payloads-to-space

JAN 23, 2019

NEW SHEPARD SUCCESSFULLY FLIES 8 NASA RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY PAYLOADS TO SPACE



Blue Origin demonstrated the versatility of the New Shepard system by taking 8 NASA-sponsored research and technology  into space today. 

This flight was dedicated to NASA's Flight Opportunities program, an essential program for researchers providing access to microgravity for technology development. Blue supports NASA's Flight Opportunities program and its role in perfecting technology for a future human presence in space.

New Shepard's reusability is lowering launch costs and creating routine access to space. Lowering the cost of microgravity research increases the opportunities for universities, government researchers and entrepreneurs to test payloads and technologies in space. 

The launch was the 10th successful mission for the New Shepard program and the 4th flight for this vehicle. It was another great practice run towards regular payload flights with .

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 to see a post from our founder about the mission. 
 
Flying New Shepard more frequently is critically important to the future of Blue Origin. It moves us toward our ultimate goal to lower the cost of access to space and move heavy industry off Earth so we can use space to benefit Earth.

Additionally, the continued success and proven stability of this configuration on a subscale confirms we are using the methods, operations and technology needed for our larger scale programs.

In an upcoming mission, New Shepard will take payloads to space from around the world.

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Science and Research Payloads on New Shepard

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 23 янв. 2019 г.

New Shepard's reusability is lowering launch costs and creating routine access to space. Lowering the cost of microgravity research increases the opportunities for universities, government researchers and entrepreneurs to test payloads and technologies in space.

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NS-10: New Shepard Flies 8 NASA Payloads to Space

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 23 янв. 2019 г.

Blue Origin demonstrated the versatility of the New Shepard system by taking 8 NASA-sponsored research and technology payloads into space today.

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Building the New Shepard Fleet

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 23 янв. 2019 г.

When we delivered New Shepard PM 4 to our West Texas launch site in December, it was the first time we had two rockets in the barn in Texas. We're building our fleet of versatile reusable launch vehicles step-by-step as we move towards operations.

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В очередной полет слетала капсула С 2.0-1, а РН №3 или другая какая. Интересно с людьми она полетит или новую делают.

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Седина в бороду, а бес в ребро - разводится, потеряет половину состояния. И если с Шепардом планы не изменятся скорее всего, то вот с темпами отработки ВЕ-4 - вопрос, как и с NG.
P.S. Уж коль не в терпеж, шо нельзя втихаря??

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 12:08 PDT - 20 мар. 2019 г.

During the "Commercialization in Low Earth Orbit" panel at #Goddard2019, Brett Alexander of Blue Origin says the company now has 1,800+ employees; workforce doubling every couple of years now.


12:13 PDT - 20 мар. 2019 г.

Alexander: planning to have first human flight of New Shepard in 3rd or 4th quarter of this year. #Goddard2019

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Thomas Burghardt‏ @TGMetsFan98 22 мин. назад

2 new FCC apps.

@blueorigin #NewShepard flight 13 active July 15 (flights 11 and 12 haven't occured yet).
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=90990&RequestTimeout=1000 ...
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DakotaWolf‏ @DakotaAstroWolf 20 ч. назад

The @blueorigin recovery ship as seen today at birth.

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Ржавый какой то, плохо красят.

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А они уверены что посадка получится с первого раза?
Надо сразу штук пять таких кораблей заказать

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Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN 4 мин. назад

FCC filing shows @blueorigin lining up communications links for a New Shepard launch between July 15 and Jan.15. This is for the 13th New Glenn mission.

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=90990 ...

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Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN 12 мин. назад

Ok, Blue Origin was granted frequencies by the FCC today for another *New Shepard launch, this one designated mission 12. The time range given is June 1 to Dec. 1.

*My mind didn't autocorrect to New Glenn this time.

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=90970 ...

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Blue Origin планирует следующий тестовый пуск New Shepard  в мае:

NOTAM

KZAB
 
FDC 9/0236 - TX..AIRSPACE VAN HORN,TX..TEMPORARY FLIGHT
RESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 18.5NM RADIUS OF
312535N1044236W OR (SALT FLAT VORTAC SFL123027) SFC-UNL TO
PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ROCKET LAUNCH AND RECOVERY
PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.143.
AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED IN THIS AIRSPACE UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY ATC.
BLUE ORIGIN LLC, BRETT GRIFFIN, TELEPHONE 830-377-8986, IS IN CHARGE OF THE
OPERATION.
ALBUQUERQUE /ZAB/ ARTCC, TELEPHONE 505-856-4500, IS THE
FAA COORDINATION FACILITY.
DLY 1230-1900. 02 MAY 12:30 2019 UNTIL 05 MAY 19:00 2019.
CREATED: 01 MAY 13:14 2019

Пуск: ежедневно с 12:30 до 19:00 UTC в период со 2-го по 5-е мая с.г.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 1 ч. назад

Blue Origin appears to be preparing for another New Shepard suborbital flight from its West Texas launch site; NOTAM closes airspace starting Thursday morning, through Sunday. http://bit.ly/2ZN2oOJ 

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 7 мин. назад

We are targeting the next launch of #NewShepard tomorrow May 2nd at 8:30 am CDT / 13:30 UTC. The mission will take 38 microgravity research payloads to space.

Watch the launch live at http://www.blueorigin.com 
#NS11

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