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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/27/blue-origin-preps-for-suborbital-test-flight-sunday/
ЦитироватьBlue Origin preps for suborbital test flight Sunday
April 27, 2018Stephen Clark


File photo of a previous New Shepard launch. Credit: Blue Origin

Blue Origin plans its next suborbital test launch Sunday from the company's sprawling development complex in West Texas, the company's owner Jeff Bezos announced Friday.

The single-stage New Shepard rocket has a launch window that opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 a.m. CDT).
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"Launch preparations are underway for New Shepard's 8th test flight, as we continue our progress toward human spaceflight," Bezos tweeted.

The reusable New Shepard booster is expected to send Blue Origin's crew capsule, which will carry research experiments and not passengers on Sunday's test, to the edge of space, an internationally-recognized boundary around 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth. The crew capsule is expected to separate from the rocket once its main engine cuts off, then descend back to the ground under parachutes.

Meanwhile, the New Shepard booster itself will plunge back to Earth before deploying a drag brake, reigniting its hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine, and extending landing legs for a gentle vertical touchdown on a concrete landing pad.

That's assuming the flight plan mirrors the trajectory of past New Shepard test launches.

A temporary flight restriction issued by the Federal Aviation Administration covering Blue Origin's test site, located north of Van Horn, Texas, is valid from 9:30 a.m. EDT through 4 p.m. EDT (8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. CDT) Sunday to "provide a safe environment for rocket launch and recovery."

The flight restriction also covers possible launch windows each day through Wednesday.

Blue Origin will webcast the test flight live, and the video will be available on this page.

Sunday's test flight is expected to reuse the same New Shepard booster that made its first launch in December.

The rocket flown Dec. 13 is Blue Origin's third New Shepard vehicle. The first New Shepard model was lost on a landing attempt in April 2015, and Blue Origin retired the second unit after it made five successful suborbital hops.

The December test flight also debuted Blue Origin's upgraded crew capsule, which features large windows to offer passengers spectacular views on their trips to space and back.

Blue Origin did not provide a live video stream of the Dec. 13 test flight, after conducting live webcasts of the previous two New Shepard demo missions in 2016.

The company hopes to be ready to fly people on New Shepard test flights by the end of the year, followed by the start of commercial space tourism service in 2019.

But Blue Origin is already offering rides for government and commercial research payloads, and more experiments will be aboard the unpiloted crew capsule Sunday.

"These payloads represent a range of users, from NASA's Johnson Space Center to a small commercial communications firm, as well as our first European customers, funded by the German national space agency, DLR," Blue Origin said. "Each of the payloads has been outfitted with a custom Blue Origin Payload Locker to provide structural, power, and data interfaces throughout the flight."

The NASA payload includes sensors to measure the environment — carbon dioxide levels, pressure, acceleration and acoustics — inside the crew capsule's cabin, and test components for the space agency's Orion spacecraft. A commercial New Mexico-based communications company named Solstar is flying a tech demo to test the concept of providing Wi-Fi access to in-space users, according to Blue Origin.

Three experiments in biology and physics from German universities and research institutes will also fly Sunday, Blue Origin said.

The New Shepard suborbital vehicle is a stepping stone to Blue Origin's larger orbital-class New Glenn rocket, which the company says could make its first test flight from Cape Canaveral by the end of 2010.

Blue Origin engineers are testing a more powerful rocket engine, the BE-4 fed by liquified natural gas, for the New Glenn launcher. The company also hopes to sell BE-4 engines to United Launch Alliance for the next-generation Vulcan rocket.
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ЦитироватьNanoRacks‏Подлинная учетная запись @NanoRacks 24 ч. назад

We're thrilled to have the NanoRacks team with @BlueOrigin in West Texas again, preparing and integrating payloads for this weekend's #NewShepard launch #GradatimFerociter

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https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/payload-customers-on-new-shepards-8th-test-flight
ЦитироватьApr 27, 2018
PAYLOAD CUSTOMERS ON NEW SHEPARD'S 8TH TEST FLIGHT

Mission 8 welcomes our second round of commercial payloads on board New Shepard for in-space science and technology demonstrations. These payloads represent a range of users, from NASA's Johnson Space Center to a small commercial communications firm, as well as our first European customers, funded by the German national space agency, DLR. Each of the payloads has been outfitted with a custom Blue Origin Payload Locker to provide structural, power, and data interfaces throughout the flight.

Below are some of the payload customers that are flying with us on Mission 8:

Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2 (SFEM-2)
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NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas)

NASA's Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2, or SFEM-2, was designed to characterize payload test environments in support of the NASA Flight Opportunities program and other payload initiatives. The sensor suite collects cabin environmental data (CO2, pressure, acceleration, acoustics) and also tests components for future flights on NASA's Orion capsule.
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Schmitt Space Communicator (SC-1x)
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Solstar (Santa Fe, NM), developed with private funding

The Schmitt Space Communicator, named after Solstar advisor and Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, is a technology demo to test the concept of providing commercial Wi-Fi access to in-space users. This flight test is being conducted with support from NASA's Flight Opportunities Program.
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Daphnia
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University of Bayreuth with ZARM (The Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen) and funding from German space agency, DLR

The Daphnia experiment investigates the effects of microgravity on gene expression and the cytoskeleton of daphnia water fleas. This small invertebrate species is popular in design of future bioregenerative life support systems for human space exploration.
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EQUIPAGE
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Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany) with ZARM (The Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen) and funding from German space agency, DLR

EQUIPAGE studies the motion of macroscopic rod shaped grains to validate physics models of these systems under microgravity conditions. Such "granular gases" allow researchers to study a unique state far from equilibrium and not possible in normal Earth environments.
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EUPHORIE
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University of Duisburg-Essen with ZARM (The Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen) and funding from German space agency, DLR

EUPHORIE uses a laser to examine the phenomenon of photophoresis, the interaction of light on solid particles suspended in a gas. As the laser heats one side of such particles, it warms nearby gas molecules and accelerates the particle towards its cooler side. This research has applications to the study of early solar system evolution and meteorite formation.

For more information on our payloads program, please visit https://www.blueorigin.com/payloads/.
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-Gradatim Ferociter!

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ЦитироватьBlue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 36 мин. назад

Current liftoff target for New Shepard's 8th test flight is 845am CDT tomorrow, 4/29.

Livestream starts at T-15 mins on http://www.blueorigin.com 

Пуск - 13:45 UTC
Трансляция - 13:30 UTC

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ЦитироватьBlue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 40 мин. назад

Mannequin Skywalker is ready for his 2nd mission on board New Shepard. He's a little sensitive about being called a "dummy", as he will be conducting astronaut telemetry and science studies – a very important job!

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ЦитироватьBlue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 7 ч. назад

Thunderstorms earlier this morning in West Texas. New liftoff target is 10:15 a.m. CDT, 15:15 UTC for New Shepard's 8th test flight. Livestream starts at T-15 minutes on http://www.blueorigin.com 


4 ч. назад

Mission 8 liftoff target now NET 11:13 a.m. CDT, 16:13 UTC.

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Mission 8 liftoff target now NET 11:42 a.m. CDT, 16:42 UTC. Livestream begins at T-15 mins before liftoff. Head to http://www.blueorigin.com  to watch.

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Трансляция Blue Origin

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Посадка ступени

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Приземление капсулы

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Трансляция Blur Origin завершена

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ЦитироватьBlue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 2 ч. назад

Touchdown of the New Shepard Booster and Crew Capsule! Congrats to Team Blue and our payload customers on board today!

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ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 ч. назад

LAUNCH of @BlueOrigin New Shepard Booster 3 carrying Crew Capsule CC2.0-1 from West Texas site at 1706 UTC Apr 29

2 ч. назад

Apogee 105.8 km, now descending

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Booster 3 landing at T+7:24. Capsule descending

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Capsule touchdown T+10:10, 1716 UTC. Congrats @BlueOrigin @arianecornell

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ЦитироватьJeff Bezos‏Подлинная учетная запись @JeffBezos 55 мин. назад

Apogee of 351,000 feet (66 miles, 107 kilometers), and that's the altitude we've been targeting for operations. One step closer. #GradatimFerociter @BlueOrigin