Blue Origin

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Alan Boyle‏Подлинная учетная запись @b0yle 15 мин. назад

Latest schedule from @blueorigin CEO Bob Smith at #afasummit2018:

People to fly on #NewShepard starting n first half of 2019;

first #NewGlenn launch in 2021.

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Alan Boyle‏Подлинная учетная запись @b0yle 6 мин. назад

CEO Bob Smith confirms that Stena Freighter, the recently purchased ship currently on its way to Florida, will be @blueorigin's rocket landing ship.
#afasummit2018

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 14:16 - 10 окт. 2018 г.

DOD contract announcement: ULA, Orbital (now Northrop Grumman) and Blue Origin win launch services agreements from the Air Force. Nothing for SpaceX.
https://dod.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1658771/


14:18 - 10 окт. 2018 г.

ULA: $967M for development of Vulcan Centaur
Northrop: $791.6M for development of OmegA
Blue Origin: $500M for development of New Glenn

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Millions of People Living and Working in Space

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 15 окт. 2018 г.

Blue Origin believes in a future where millions of people are living and working in space. Why? Because we believe that in order to preserve Earth, our home, for our grandchildren's grandchildren, we must go to space to tap its unlimited resources and energy. If we can lower the cost of access to space with reusable launch vehicles, we can enable this dynamic future for humanity.

It's a hopeful vision.

Blue Origin is committed to building a road to space so our children can build a future. www.blueorigin.com

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Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 15 мин. назад

The @blueorigin Stena Freighter will arrive in Pensacola today where it will go into drydock to receive modifications and hopefully a new name. Also of note, @JeffBezos toured the new Merritt Island Manufacturing Facility early this week. #BlueOriginFleet

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Josh Pepper‏ @joshuapepper 20 окт.

The Stena Freighter, Blue Origin's new vessel docked at the Port of Pensacola. A little over 600ft long, she was quite an imposing presence up close. She is scheduled for dry dock upgrades before being delivered to Blue Origin. Photos taken for @NASASpaceflight.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 12:00 - 28 нояб. 2018 г.

ARTICLE:

Blue Origin publishes New Glenn overview as pad and landing ship continue development -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/blue-origin-new-glenn-overview-pad-landing-ship-dev/ ...

This vehicle excites me! ("But all rockets excite you Chris!" ) True....but this is another cool one.

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NOTAM

KZAB
 
FDC 8/1847 - NM..AIRSPACE VAN HORN,TX..TEMPORARY FLIGHT
RESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 19.5NM 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. ACFT OPS 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 1400-2000. 18 DEC 14:00 2018 UNTIL 20 DEC 20:00 2018.
CREATED: 17 DEC 14:16 2018

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Parabolicarc.com‏ @spacecom 3 ч. назад

Hey it looks like #JeffBezos #BlueOrigin #NewShepard is flying again. Two day launch window opens Tuesday at Van Horn in Texas


Thomas Burghardt‏ @TGMetsFan98 2 ч. назад

This the FOURTH launch scheduled for tomorrow.

New Shepard NET 9:00 AM EST
Falcon 9 at 9:11 AM
Arianespace Soyuz at 11:37 AM
Delta IV Heavy at 8:57 PM

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https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/new-shepard-to-fly-9-nasa-sponsored-payloads-to-space-on-ns-10

Dec 17, 2018
New Shepard to fly 9 NASA-sponsored Payloads to Space on NS-10

Blue Origin's next New Shepard mission (NS-10) is currently targeting liftoff tomorrow at 8:30 am CST / 14:30 UTC. This will be the 10th New Shepard mission and is dedicated to bringing nine NASA-sponsored research and technology payloads into space through NASA's Flight Opportunities program.

NASA's Flight Opportunities program is 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.

The payloads flying with us on NS-10 include:

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Carthage College Space Sciences Program: The Modal Propellant Gauging experiment led by Dr. Kevin Crosby is a joint effort with the NASA Kennedy Space Center Cryogenics Laboratory. It demonstrates a way to measure fuel levels in microgravity by using sound waves.

Controlled Dynamics Inc.: The Vibration Isolation Platform (VIP) aims to separate payloads from the normally occurring vibrations experienced during spaceflight. The payload led by Dr. Scott Green allows researchers to have a clear understanding of microgravity's effects on their research results.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab: On its second flight with Blue, the EM Fieldexperiment will observe and collect data on the naturally occurring electromagnetic fields both inside and outside New Shepard during the launch. Principal Investigator Dr. Todd Smith will use success of this experiment to determine how global measurements of the Earth's electromagnetic field can be conducted in the future.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Cooling tightly-packed electronics onboard a spacecraft can be challenging, and many solutions have not been able to undergo robust testing. Principal Investigator Franklin Robinson will test one of these solutions in his Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers experiment.

NASA Johnson Space Center: On its third flight on New Shepard, the Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2 (SFEM-2) led by Dr. Katy Hurlbert will analyze various aspects of the flight environment during New Shepard's mission profile, measuring cabin pressure, temperature, CO2, acoustic conditions, acceleration and more. The data collected will help future researchers on New Shepard design the most effective experiments for the vehicle.

Purdue University: Dr. Steven Collicott's payload looks at Zero-Gravity Green Propellant Management Technology, which aims to help advance the use of a safer and more environmentally friendly rocket propellant by better understanding the fuel's behavior in microgravity.

University of Central Florida: Two teams led by Dr. Josh Colwell and Dr. Addie Dove both have planetary science payloads on NS-10. The Collisions Into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE)aims to understand how dust particles react after surface contact during exploration missions to places such as the Moon, Mars and asteroids. The Collection of Regolith Experiment (CORE) addresses the unique challenge of collecting and analyzing material samples in microgravity.

University of Florida: Dr. Rob Ferl and Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul are adapting technology designed for the ISS to suborbital uses with their experiment, Validating Telemetric Imaging Hardware for Crew-Assisted and Crew-Autonomous Biological Imaging in Suborbital Applications. By recalibrating the way data is collected, the experiment will enable more biological research on suborbital missions.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 12:59 - 17 дек. 2018 г.

Weather for tomorrow's rocket launch bonanza:
- #SpaceX #Falcon9 - weather 90% GO!
- @blueorigin #NewShepard - weather looks great!
- @Arianespace #Soyuz - It would take apocalyptic weather to keep a Soyuz on the ground ()
- @ulalaunch #DeltaIVHeavy - weather 20% GO.[/LIST]

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Трансляция пуска NS-10

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/18/blue-origin-new-shepard-10/

Watch live: Blue Origin schedules suborbital launch for Tuesday
December 18, 2018 | Stephen Clark

Blue Origin plans to launch a suborbital New Shepard booster from West Texas on Tuesday, giving nine NASA-sponsored research and technology experiments a ride to space aboard the reusable single-stage rocket.

Liftoff is set for 8:30 a.m. CST (9:30 a.m. EST; 1430 GMT) Tuesday from Blue Origin's sprawling test facility north of Van Horn, Texas.

The flight is expected to climb to an altitude of more than 60 miles — or 100 kilometers — powered by a hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine. The NASA research payloads will fly inside a crew capsule on top of the New Shepard booster, but no passengers will be aboard Tuesday's launch.

The booster and capsule will separate after shut down of the rocket's main engine. Both vehicles will come back to Earth, with the rocket aiming for a controlled vertical touchdown on a landing pad with the help of a braking burn, and the capsule parachuting to the desert floor a few miles away.

Founded and funded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin plans to fly people on a New Shepard launch next year. The booster set to fly Tuesday is the third New Shepard propulsion module produced by Blue Origin, and the company says a fourth New Shepard rocket — the one intended to carry humans on suborbital trips to space — has arrived at the West Texas launch site from its factory near Seattle.

Tuesday's flight will be the 10th launch of a New Shepard vehicle, and the fourth flight with the third New Shepard propulsion module. It will also be Blue Origin's first flight since July 18, when engineers demonstrated the vehicle's high-altitude abort capability.

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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.

Blue Origin is expected to use the same booster and crew capsule from the July mission on Tuesday's launch, which is scheduled five days after one of the company's main competitors in the suborbital space tourism market — Virgin Galactic — flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space for the first time with two test pilots at the controls.

The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane reached a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles, or 82.7 kilometers, on Thursday'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, none of which have carried passengers or employees to date, have reached altitudes over the 100-kilometer (62-mile) Kármán line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space.

An April 29 New Shepard test launch flew to an altitude of 351,000 feet, or about 107 kilometers. Bezos said that is the altitude Blue Origin targets for operational New Shepard flights.

Blue Origin has not announced ticket prices for passengers seeking to ride New Shepard, and the company is not yet taking deposits. Virgin Galactic has received deposits from hundreds of would-be space tourist toward the $250,000 price of a ride on SpaceShipTwo.

While Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo vehicle uses an airborne release to fire into space and lands on a runway under manual pilot control, Blue Origin's fully-automated New Shepard rocket and crew capsule takes off vertically from a launch pad, followed by a propulsive landing of the booster and a parachute-assisted return of the passenger-carrying module — a flight profile expected to be demonstrated again with Tuesday's mission.

"Jeff is running a very similar kind of company to us, but a very different experience as passengers," said Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Group, in an interview Thursday with CNBC. "His will be a land-based rocket, our's is a spaceship that flies and comes back down on its wheels. His comes back down on a parachute. They're both, I think, very valid. I think they'll both be tremendous experiences for people, and my guess is that people will want to try both if they can afford it."

The nine NASA-sponsored experiments slated to fly to space Tuesday 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 will also carry an experimental imager that could be used to support future biological investigations on suborbital rockets, a vibration isolation platform to protect experiments from the shaking and forces encountered in flight, and a data recorder to log temperature, pressure, carbon dioxide levels, acoustic conditions and acceleration inside the cabin.

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 5 мин. назад

#NewShepard is on the pad and ready for flight today with 9 @NASA-sponsored payloads on board. Live webcast begins on http://www.blueorigin.com  at 8:00 am CST – current liftoff target is 8:30 am CST / 14:30 UTC #NS10 http://bit.ly/2QD1KSS 

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"Совместно" с пуском SpaceX

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 49 с. назад

We are scrubbing today's #NewShepard launch due to a ground infrastructure issue. The vehicle is in good standing. Stand by for updates as we see what weather looks like for tomorrow #NS10

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 7 ч. назад

Still working through ground infrastructure issues and monitoring incoming weather in West Texas. Slating next launch window NET Friday 12/21 pending further review. Stay tuned for updates as we learn more #NS10

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/18/blue-origin-new-shepard-10/

Blue Origin scrubs suborbital launch attempt, next countdown no earlier than Friday
December 18, 2018 | Stephen Clark

EDITOR'S NOTE: Upd ated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) Tuesday with Blue Origin's announcement of a scrubbed launch attempt. Upd ated at 10:30 p.m. EST (0330 GMT on Dec. 19) with new target launch date.


File photo of a New Shepard rocket at Blue Origin's test site in West Texas before a previous flight. Credit: Blue Origin

Blue Origin scrubbed the planned launch Tuesday of the company's suborbital New Shepard booster from West Texas due to a "ground infrastructure issue."

Liftoff was se t for 8:30 a.m. CST (9:30 a.m. EST; 1430 GMT) Tuesday from Blue Origin's sprawling test facility north of Van Horn, Texas, but Blue Origin tweeted shortly before 8 a.m. CST that the launch was delayed.

"We are scrubbing today's #NewShepard launch due to a ground infrastructure issue," Blue Origin tweeted Tuesday morning. "The vehicle is in good standing. Stand by for updates as we see what weather looks like for tomorrow."

Blue Origin tweeted an update later Tuesday: "Still working through ground infrastructure issues and monitoring incoming weather in West Texas. Slating next launch window NET Friday 12/21 pending further review. Stay tuned for updates as we learn more."

When it takes off, the flight is expected to climb to an altitude of more than 60 miles — or 100 kilometers — powered by a hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine. The NASA research payloads will fly inside a crew capsule on top of the New Shepard booster, but no passengers will be aboard the launch.

The booster and capsule will separate after shut down of the rocket's main engine. Both vehicles will come back to Earth, with the rocket aiming for a controlled vertical touchdown on a landing pad with the help of a braking burn, and the capsule parachuting to the desert floor a few miles away.

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Founded and funded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin plans to fly people on a New Shepard launch next year. The booster se t to fly again this week is the third New Shepard propulsion module produced by Blue Origin, and the company says a fourth New Shepard rocket — the one intended to carry humans on suborbital trips to space — has arrived at the West Texas launch site from its factory near Seattle.

The upcoming flight will be the 10th launch of a New Shepard vehicle, and the fourth flight with the third New Shepard propulsion module. It will also be 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.

Blue Origin is expected to use the same booster and crew capsule from the July mission on the upcoming launch, which was scheduled less than a week after one of the company's main competitors in the suborbital space tourism market — Virgin Galactic — flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space for the first time with two test pilots at the controls.

The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane reached a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles, or 82.7 kilometers, on Thursday'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, none of which have carried passengers or employees to date, have reached altitudes over the 100-kilometer (62-mile) Kármán line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space.

An April 29 New Shepard test launch flew to an altitude of 351,000 feet, or about 107 kilometers. Bezos said that is the altitude Blue Origin targets for operational New Shepard flights.

Blue Origin has not announced ticket prices for passengers seeking to ride New Shepard, and the company is not yet taking deposits. Virgin Galactic has received deposits from hundreds of would-be space tourist toward the $250,000 price of a ride on SpaceShipTwo.

While Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo vehicle uses an airborne release to fire into space and lands on a runway under manual pilot control, Blue Origin's fully-automated New Shepard rocket and crew capsule takes off vertically from a launch pad, followed by a propulsive landing of the booster and a parachute-assisted return of the passenger-carrying module — a flight profile expected to be demonstrated again with Tuesday's mission.

"Jeff is running a very similar kind of company to us, but a very different experience as passengers," said Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Group, in an interview Thursday with CNBC. "His will be a land-based rocket, our's is a spaceship that flies and comes back down on its wheels. His comes back down on a parachute. They're both, I think, very valid. I think they'll both be tremendous experiences for people, and my guess is that people will want to try both if they can afford it."

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The nine NASA-sponsored experiments slated to fly to space on New Shepard's 10th mission 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 will also carry an experimental imager that could be used to support future biological investigations on suborbital rockets, a vibration isolation platform to protect experiments from the shaking and forces encountered in flight, and a data recorder to log temperature, pressure, carbon dioxide levels, acoustic conditions and acceleration inside the cabin.

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 23 мин. назад

Through fixing the ground infrastructure issue, we have determined additional systems need to be addressed. We have changed our target to early 2019 for next launch attempt. Stay tuned for updates #NS10

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New Glenn: The Road to Space

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 16 янв. 2019 г.

Debuting from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2021, New Glenn will serve commercial, civil and national security customers from around the world. Featuring a 7 meter fairing with more than 2X the available volume of any rocket flying today and twin BE-3U engines powering the most capable upper stage in the market, New Glenn can launch the full range of satellite payloads. Seven reusable BE-4 engines generating 3.85 million pounds of thrust power the first stage designed to launch 25 times and land safely down range on a moving ship. New Glenn is beginning to take shape at our state-of-the-art rocket factory. Visit us at www.blueorigin.com to learn more.

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