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ЦитироватьFDC 7/2605 - NM..AIRSPACE VAN HORN,TX..TEMPORARY FLIGHTRESTRICTIONS WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 17NM RADIUS OF(314517N/1047628W) OR (SALT FLAT VORTAC SFL125024) SFC-UNL TOPROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ROCKET LAUNCH AND RECOVERYPURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.143. AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS AREPROHIBITED IN THIS AIRSPACE UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY ATC. BLUE ORIGINLLC, GWEN GRIFFIN, TELEPHONE 281-898-2464 IS IN CHARGE OF THEOPERATION. ALBUQUERQUE /ZAB/ ARTCC TELEPHONE 505-856-4500 IS THE FAACOORDINATION FACILITY. DLY 1430-2100. 11 DEC 14:30 2017 UNTIL 14 DEC 21:00 2017.CREATED: 09 DEC 20:55 2017

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http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_7_2605.html
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NOTAM Number : FDC 7/2605 Download shapefiles
Issue Date : December 09, 2017 at 2055 UTC
Location : VAN HORN, Texas near SALT FLAT VORTAC (SFL)
Beginning Date and Time : December 11, 2017 UTC 1430-2100 Daily
Ending Date and Time : December 14, 2017 UTC
Reason for NOTAM : TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ROCKET LAUNCH AND RECOVERY PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91
Type : Space Operations
Replaced NOTAM(s) : N/A
Pilots May Contact : ALBUQUERQUE (ZAB) ARTCC, 505-856-4500

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Center:  On the SALT FLAT VORTAC (SFL) 125 degree radial at 24 nautical miles. (Latitude: 31º27'16"N, Longitude: 104º46'04"W)


Radius:  17 nautical miles


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1430 to 2100 UTC Daily starting December 11 and ending December 14.

   
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ARTCC: ZAB - Albuquerque Center
Point of Contact: BLUE ORIGIN LLC, GWEN GRIFFIN

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/10/blue-origin-could-fly-new-suborbital-vehicle-this-week/
ЦитироватьBlue Origin could fly new suborbital vehicle this week
December 10, 2017 Stephen Clark


An airspace restriction over West Texas posted on the Federal Aviation Administration's website and filed by Blue Origin suggests the company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos could launch its upgraded reusable New Shepard suborbital booster for the first time this week.
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File photo of a New Shepard launch fr om Blue Origin's West Texas test site. Credit: Blue Origin

Blue Origin officials said in recent months that ground crews were readying the next model of the New Shepard single-stage rocket for its first test flight from the company's sprawling test facility near Van Horn, Texas, east of El Paso, targeting a suborbital launch by the end of this year.

A Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, released Saturday covering Blue Origin's test site suggested the New Shepard flights may resume this week. The airspace over the commercial company's remote desert launch base will be restricted due to "spaceflight operations" from Monday through Thursday, between 1430 and 2100 GMT (9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. EST; 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. CST).

A Blue Origin spokesperson confirmed the NOTAM was filed by the Bezos-backed company.

"Blue Origin has filed a NOTAM for spaceflight operations this week," the spokesperson said. "It will be taken down when our activity is complete."

The Kent, Washington-based company did not provide further details on the test flight plans.

Blue Origin's New Shepard booster, named for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and topped with a pressurized crew capsule, is under development to carry researchers and space tourists on short suborbital hops above an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers), the internationally-recognized boundary of space, also known as the Karman line. The capsule has already accommodated automated research experiments, without a crew on-board, on earlier suborbital test flights.

The upcoming flight will debut the third New Shepard vehicle built by Blue Origin. The first rocket was lost on descent after a successful blastoff in April 2015, and the second booster launched and landed successfully five times.

Blue Origin retired the second vehicle after testing the spacecraft's launch abort capability in October 2016, demonstrating the maneuvers needed to whisk the capsule and its occupants safely away from failing rocket. The company sent the rocket and a mock-up crew capsule to display at several aerospace conferences and conventions, including the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in April and the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in July.

The third New Shepard vehicle will move Blue Origin closer to launching people into space, perhaps as soon as late next year.

"Within the next 18 months, we're going to be launching humans into space," said Bob Smith, Blue Origin's CEO, in a presentation to the National Space Council on Oct. 5. "These won't be astronauts — people that would have been trained and specialized within an area — but these will be everyday citizens."

The crew capsule will eventually be able to carry six passengers beyond the Karman line.


Jeff Bezos sits inside a mock-up of Blue Origin's suborbital crew capsule, with the five-times-flown reusable New Shepard booster in the background at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

"This is our third tail for New Shepard, following on the lessons we learned from tail two," said Clay Mowry, Blue Origin's vice president of sales and marketing. "The capsule, for instance, didn't have windows on it. Those were painted on for the test flights. Now, we have the largest windows, on this capsule, that will have ever flown in space."

The new capsule also has seats as Blue Origin experiments with the passenger accommodations inside the spacecraft.

"On the booster itself, we've incorporated a lot of things that will allow us to enable operational reuse," Mowry said at Euroconsult's World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris in September. "There are a lot of features to that vehicle, wh ere for instance we have panels, and you want to be able to get in and access through these panels to be able to service the vehicle in between flights.

With the third vehicle, Blue Origin engineers are also "trying to improve on thermal protection and other elements of it to make it so the system is operationally reusable," he said.

"The third propulsion module we're going to test hopefully by the end of this year," Mowry said in September. "We'll fly it again, and we'll be testing it into next year, and then there's a fourth propulsion module that will be coming, which is the one that we're actually going to fly people on."

The New Shepard is powered by a BE-3 main engine consuming a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants, generating about 110,000 pounds of thrust at full throttle. The engine burned for nearly two-and-a-half minutes on New Shepard test flights last year, powering the booster on a trajectory nearly straight up from the West Texas launch pad.

The crew capsule detached from the booster a few moments later, and both vehicles coasted to maximum altitude in the rarefied upper atmosphere, above most of the effects of aerodynamic forces. The descending rocket deployed a drag brake to slow its fall, then reignited the BE-3 engine — which can be throttled down to a fraction of its full power level — and extended landing legs for touchdown on a concrete pad.

The capsule descended to the desert surface under parachutes, and technicians refurbished the vehicles for reuse.

A similar launch and landing profile is expected to be followed by the third New Shepard vehicle, but engineers aim to reduce the time needed to ready the rocket and capsule for a re-flight.

Blue Origin provided an online live video stream of the last two New Shepard flights in June and October last year, but the company has not indicated it will offer a live webcast of this week's test launch.

A bigger multi-stage rocket named the New Glenn is planned for launch by 2020 from Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin is designing the larger launcher to carry satellites into orbit, and eventually people.
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Цитировать Parabolicarc.com‏ @spacecom 8 мин назад

#NewShepard just took off....

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 6 мин. назад

Oh! New Shepard back into test flights (new vehicle). Now to see if Blue Origin will say anything. In the early days it took several hours until they did.

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Цитировать Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 25 мин. назад

Test was successful, I'm told, but wait for BO to confirm the test overview (which may take a long time as they are likely going to work a high production video of the test first!)

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ЦитироватьGunter Krebs‏ @Skyrocket71 36s

After a one-year hiatus, Blue Origin has conducted another test flight of their New Shepard suborbital space tourist vehicle. Reportedly capsule and booster were recovered.

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Цитировать Jeff Bezos‏Подлинная учетная запись @JeffBezos 45 мин. назад

#NewShepard had a successful first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0 today. Complete with windows and our instrumented test dummy. He had a great ride. @BlueOrigin

Video (1:48 )

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Цитировать Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 3 мин. назад

New Shepard Mission 7 from @BlueOrigin's West Texas site at 1659 UTC flew Crew Capsule 2.0 to 99.4 km apogee; booster to 99.3 km apogee (MSL); both landed safely

Pirat5

Про капсулу "New Shepard Crew Capsule" - везде сказано, что это новая (но не последняя) версия, с окошками.
Но вот ничего толком не сказано про саму ракету "New Shepard vehicle".
ЦитироватьAmazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his space venture, Blue Origin, launched the latest version of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship today for the company's first test flight in 14 months, with an instrumented test dummy seated aboard.
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Between November 2015 and October 2016, Blue Origin put an earlier version of the New Shepard through five successful flights to the edge of space and back.
Сколько было New Shepard всего? Или они на 1й версии и летают?

Apollo13

Первый экземпляр ракеты разбился в первом же пуске. Второй успешно слетал пять раз. Теперь полетел третий.

che wi

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin spaceship gives test dummy a 'great ride'

ЦитироватьAmazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his space venture, Blue Origin, launched the latest version of its New Shepard suborbital spaceship today for the company's first test flight in 14 months, with an instrumented test dummy seated aboard.

"He had a great ride," Bezos said tonight in a tweet.

The uncrewed, straight-up, straight-down trip was conducted at Blue Origin's testing ground in West Texas. The video that Bezos included with his tweet showed the New Shepard blasting off and rising above a wide-open spread of ranchland.

In addition to the dummy, which was nicknamed "Mannequin Skywalker," the New Shepard crew capsule carried 12 commercial, research and educational payloads, Blue Origin said.

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The company's fact sheet said the flight lasted a total of 10 minutes and 6 seconds, starting at 10:59 a.m. CT (8:59 a.m. PT). The booster went nearly three times the speed of sound on the way up (Mach 2.94) and even faster on the way down (Mach 3.74). The capsule's maximum altitude was listed as 99.39 kilometers, just shy of the internationally accepted 100-kilometer boundary of outer space.

"Today's flight of New Shepard was a tremendous success," Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith said in the fact sheet. "It marks the inaugural flight of our next-generation crew capsule as we continue step-by-step progress in our test flight program."

Between November 2015 and October 2016, Blue Origin put an earlier version of the New Shepard through five successful flights to the edge of space and back. Then that spacecraft was retired, and the company's team in Kent, Wash., turned its focus to building a version of the crew capsule that's closer to what passengers would eventually be riding. For example, the updated version has actual windows rather than painted-on facsimiles.

If the current series of flight tests goes well, Blue Origin could start taking people up on suborbital space rides as early as next year. The company isn't yet taking reservations or publishing its ticket prices. Would-be riders will have to wait until the tests are complete. But Bezos' video included a teaser in big letters at the end: "Ready to fly?"

New Shepard is designed to fly up to six passengers autonomously. During flight, the crew capsule separates from a booster that's powered by Blue Origin's hydrogen-fueled BE-3 rocket engine. The capsule drifts down to the ground on the end of a parachute, while the booster is programmed to relight its engine and fly itself back down separately to a controlled landing.

Today the booster's landing legs touched down smoothly at a velocity of 6.75 mph, while the capsule was going a mere 1 mph when it hit the dirt, Blue Origin said.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the aim of having millions of people living and working in space. Last year, he told reporters that he sells about a billion dollars worth of Amazon stock annually to support the venture, and he has joked that the reason he founded Amazon was to earn the money to fund his space ambitions.

Bezos' current estimated net worth is $99 billion, making him the world's richest person, according to Bloomberg.

In addition to its suborbital space program, Blue Origin is working on a next-generation BE-4 rocket engine and an orbital-class rocket called New Glenn. Just as New Shepard is named after NASA's first astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, New Glenn is named after the first American in orbit, John Glenn.

New Shepard is produced at Blue Origin's headquarters in Kent, but New Glenn will be built at a 750,000-square-foot facility that's nearing completion in Florida. That rocket's first test launch is due to take place by 2020.

Blue Origin is also working on a lunar delivery system nicknamed Blue Moon, which may figure in NASA's updated plans to send humans to the lunar surface. In May, Bezos said Blue Moon could facilitate building "a permanent human settlement on one of the poles of the moon."
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ЦитироватьRohan пишет:
По моему, это всё на уровне дорогостоящего ракетомодельного хобби шопа  :)  .
Ну до специалистов НАСЫ который запилили замую большую ракетомодель в истории (Арес-1-Х) и тут же выкинули её на свалку, этим ещё далеко   :D

Василий Ратников

Безос по пиару полная противоположность Маска )
тишина тишина - хрясь новость - тишина.

они так свого new glenn внезапно запустят )

che wi

Заметка на русском о вчерашнем пуске

Blue Origin испытала новую версию суборбитальной капсулы
https://nplus1.ru/news/2017/12/13/blue-origin

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ЦитироватьCrew Capsule 2.0 First Flight

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 12 дек. 2017 г.

New Shepard flew again for the seventh time on Dec. 12, 2017, from Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall. M7 also included 12 commercial, research and education payloads onboard. Crew Capsule 2.0 reached an apogee of 322,405 feet AGL/326,075 feet MSL (98.27 kilometers AGL/99.39 kilometers MSL). The booster reached an apogee of 322,032 feet AGL/325,702 feet MSL (98.16 kilometers AGL/99.27 kilometers MSL).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSDHM6iuogIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSDHM6iuogI (1:48 )

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/13/blue-origin-launches-new-shepard-test-flight/
ЦитироватьBlue Origin launches New Shepard test flight
December 13, 2017 William Harwood

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSDHM6iuogI
Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launched a reusable New Shepard sub-orbital rocket from the company's west Texas launch site Tuesday, boosting an unpiloted crew capsule out of the dense lower atmosphere for a brief foray into space before a parachute descent to Earth.
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The booster, meanwhile, plunged back to the launch site tail first, re-starting its hydrogen-fueled BE-3 main engine to slow down, deploying four legs and settling to a picture-perfect touchdown on a circular landing pad.

The launching, the first using an upgraded booster and a crew capsule equipped with the large windows that will offer space tourists spectacular panoramic views, was carried out in secrecy and Blue Origin did not acknowledge the flight until around 11 p.m. EST.

"Successful first flight of #NewShepard today with the largest windows in space and commercial payloads on board," Blue Origin tweeted. "Wholly successful mission."

Added Bezos: "#NewShepard had a successful first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0 today. Complete with windows and our instrumented test dummy. He had a great ride."

An edited video, available on YouTube, showed the hydrogen-fueled New Shepard rocket blasting off on a brilliant jet of flame and climbing straight away through a deep blue sky.

The crew capsule was released after the booster's engine shut down, soaring to an altitude of 322,000 feet — about 61 miles — before arcing back toward Earth. Small drogue chutes deployed to stabilize the spacecraft followed by three large chutes that slowed the ship for a gentle 1-mph touchdown near the launch site.

 Blue Origin's Crew Capsule 2.0 carried a crash test dummy on Tuesday's flight. Credit: Blue Origin

The booster, flying on its own, steered itself back to a rocket-powered touchdown, kicking up a cloud of dust as it descended to an on-target landing.

It was Blue Origin's seventh New Shepard flight overall and it's sixth success in a row. It was the company's first test flight since a dramatic launch Oct. 5, 2016, that simulated an in-flight abort and its first using a new, upgraded booster and a crew capsule equipped with windows.

"Crew Capsule 2.0 features large windows, measuring 2.4 feet wide, 3.6 feet tall," the company said in a caption to its YouTube video. "(It) also included 12 commercial, research and education payloads onboard."

Blue Origin is developing the reusable New Shepard rocket and spacecraft to carry up to six space tourists, researchers and/or experiments on brief sub-orbital flights above the discernible atmosphere more than 62 miles up, or 100 kilometers. That's the somewhat arbitrary but widely recognized "boundary" of space.

Once released from the booster, passengers in the relatively spacious crew cabin will experience four to five minutes of weightlessness as the spacecraft arcs over and begins falling back to Earth, enjoying a spectacular panoramic view through the largest windows ever designed for spaceflight.

Plunging back into the dense lower atmosphere, passengers will experience up to five times the pull of gravity at sea level before the parachutes deploy for landing.

Assuming continued testing goes well, Blue Origin hopes to being launching passengers within the next year and a half or so. No word yet on how much a ticket might cost.
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Цитировать Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 15 мин. назад

ARTICLE: Blue Origin flies Mannequin Skywalker during successful New Shepard test - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/12/blue-origin-skywalker-test-new-shepard/ ...
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Blue Origin flies Mannequin Skywalker during successful New Shepard test

December 13, 2017 by Chris Bergin and Chris Gebhardt

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Цитировать Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 8 ч. назад

So @BlueOrigin flew a dummy called "Mannequin Skywalker" aboard NS-M7. Nicely done, Blue.