Blue Origin

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 17h17 hours ago

Matsutomi: doing a lot of testing of the BE-4 engine, capable of going up to 200 seconds at a time. One aspect of the horizontal test stand is that the plume has created a "giant canyon" in front of the stand as plume erodes ground. #AIAAPropEnergy

Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 17h17 hours ago

Matsutomi: we're targeting to complete BE-4 engine testing by the end of this year. #AIAAPropEnergy

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https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-to-offer-dual-launch-with-new-glenn-after-fifth-mission/

Blue Origin to offer dual launch with New Glenn after fifth mission

by Caleb Henry -- July 12, 2018



New Glenn will be able to take two 6.5-ton spacecraft direct to geosynchronous orbit. Credit: Blue Origin.



JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Blue Origin will begin flying two customers on the same New Glenn rocket after the launch vehicle has performed five missions with solo customers, according to Ted McFarland, Blue Origin's commercial director of Asia-Pacific business.
"Our first five are all dedicated missions as we release margin and prove out our operational reusability concept," McFarland said July 4 at the APSAT 2018 conference here. "But starting fr om launch six on, we will have a dual-manifesting capability."
New Glenn's first launch is slated for late 2020, and is designed from the start to feature a reusable first stage. McFarland said most customers prefer a dedicated launch, rather than sharing a rocket with a co-passenger, but Blue Origin is preparing to have dual launch as an option for those seeking to split the price of a mission with another satellite operator.
By launch six, New Glenn will have a direct to geosynchronous-orbit capability of 13 metric tons, McFarland said. Paired with a 7-meter payload fairing, McFarland said the dual launch ability will still be "a fairly significant achievement." Blue Origin's New Glenn mass and volume parameters are larger than that of Arianespace's Ariane 5, International Launch Services' Proton and SpaceX's Falcon 9 -- the main vehicles used for commercial satellite launch today.
New Glenn's dual-launch arrangement will allow two satellites to launch together without having to coordinate mass differences, as is done on Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5, he said. Ariane 5, Europe's flagship launch vehicle, launches most missions with two spacecraft, but the second satellite has to be smaller to fit in the rocket's lower berth.
McFarland said Blue Origin's New Glenn development plan calls for a "SYLDA-like environment structure," referring to the divider Arianespace uses to separate spacecraft within the Ariane 5's payload fairing.
"That will allow two or possibly even more spacecraft to be carried inside the fairing volume," he said.
To date Arianespace is the only launch provider to consistently champion dual launch for satellite operators wanting to send their spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbits. Other launch providers on the same panel -- SpaceX, International Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- said they can all do dual launches but find dedicated launches preferable.
"When we came into the market, one of our key selling points was that we are a dedicated launch," said Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president of commercial sales. "Across the board our customers don't like dual launch. They love the price, [but] they don't offer the flexibility."
SpaceX has conducted two dual-manifested Falcon 9 launches, each carrying one satellite for ABS and Eutelsat, but has since only performed dedicated missions when launching GEO-bound satellites.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' launch services director, Nobuyuki Shiina, said the company's H2A and next-generation H3 launchers have a dual-launch capability, but MHI is focused more on dedicated launches.
"[We are] trying to be more flexible and trying to keep schedule assurance, so we are much more focused on the dedicated launch," he said.
H3 is on track for a 2020 debut with a price meant to be on par with SpaceX's Falcon 9, he said.
"It becomes tricky when you are trying to match the two customers from a schedule standpoint," said Kevin Reyes, senior director of Asia-Pacific sales for International Launch Services, the Reston, Virginia-based subsidiary of Russia's Proton rocket builder Khrunichev.
Reyes said customers are generally unwilling to tolerate co-passenger delays, making arrangements for dual launches difficult. ILS has a dual-launch capability with Proton and will keep that option for the smaller Proton Medium when it debuts in 2020, but Reyes said ILS's biggest value proposition is instead its direct-to-geosynchronous-orbit (GSO) launches.
That provides a quicker path to market, he said, adding that operators of all-electric satellites can avoid months of orbit-raising with direct-GSO missions.
Hofeller said Falcon Heavy, which had its first launch in February, gives SpaceX a direct-to-GSO capability as well.
Blue Origin's McFarland said Blue Origin won't let schedule disruptions with one payload impact the co-passenger in dual-launch missions, even if it means splitting the missions in two.
"We are not going to [let this] hold back or delay a launch," he said. "We are going for a cadence of up to eight times per year wh ere we will launch. If we don't have a second, we still go as a single. So that's the plan, [with] the same price point for the launch service for the customer."

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Все равно трудно поверить что 13 т на ГСО не ошибка.

Main Engine Cut Off‏ @WeHaveMECO 13 год13 годин тому

"direct to geosynchronous-orbit capability of 13 metric tons" 13 tons to GEO? Not GTO?

Caleb Henry‏ @CHenry_SN 13 год.13 годин тому

У відповідь @WeHaveMECO

Yep. Full quote: "Coupled with a 13 metric ton to GEO, to actual GEO insertion capability at that point, it will be a fairly significant achievement."

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13.07.2018          Reuters: Blue Origin намерена брать с туристов за суборбитальный полет по $200-300 тыс.
       
 Компания Blue Origin намерена продавать туристам места на своем корабле New Shepard для суборбитальных полетов по цене от $200 до 300 тыс., передает ТАСС. Об этом сообщило в четверг агентство Reuters, ссылаясь на двух представителей компании, которые непосредственно участвуют в обсуждении ценовой стратегии.
 
 19 июня вице-президент Blue Origin Роберт Мейерсон заявил на прошедшей в Вашингтоне конференции по перспективным космическим услугам, что компания планирует начать продажу билетов для туристов в 2019 году. Он не стал уточнять, когда конкретно предполагается приступить к бронированию и продаже мест на New Shepard и по какой цене.
 
 Корабль, который сможет брать на борт шесть пассажиров, совершил с ноября 2015 года уже восемь испытательных полетов в автоматическом режиме, не вызвавших никаких нареканий. Последний по времени состоялся 29 апреля. По словам руководителя технологического отдела Blue Origin Дина Кассмэна, следующее испытание может быть проведено до конца лета.
 
 Согласно источникам агентства Reuters, самыми первыми пассажирами корабля станут сотрудники Blue Origin, но к их отбору компания еще не приступала. По оценкам аналитика из консалтинговой фирмы Teal Group Марко Касереса, каждый полет на орбиту будет обходиться в $10 млн, так что Blue Origin понесет убытки, по меньшей мере на первоначальном этапе.

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 30 мин. назад

Ready for lift off! New Shepard is gearing up for its ninth mission. We'll be doing a high altitude escape motor test - pushing the rocket to its limits. Launch is tomorrow. Details on live webcast to come.

Прим. 2018-07-18

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NOTAM на пуск

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FDC 8/6602 - NM..AIRSPACE VAN HORN,TX..TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 19.5NM RADIUS OF (312535N/1044236W) 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 281-898-2464 IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. ALBUQUERQUE /ZAB/ ARTCC TELEPHONE 505-856-4500 IS THE FAA COORDINATION FACILITY. DLY 1300-1900. 18 JUL 13:00 2018 UNTIL 21 JUL 19:00 2018. CREATED: 17 JUL 12:56 2018

Пусковое окно: 13:00-19:00 UTC
Пусковой период: 2018-07-18 - 2018-07-21

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 31 мин. назад

Launch tomorrow slated for 9:00 am CT / 14:00 UTC. Live webcast begins at T-20 minutes on http://BlueOrigin.com .

на сайте BlueOrigin

https://www.blueorigin.com/#youtubeNRDhdHRyyjc

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на ТыТрубе (напрямую)

youtube.com/watch?v=NRDhdHRyyjc

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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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