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New Shepard's 8th Test Flight

Blue Origin

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/29/suborbital-test-flight-moves-blue-origin-closer-to-launching-people/

Suborbital test flight moves Blue Origin closer to launching people
April 29, 2018 | Stephen Clark

EDITOR'S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) with new apogee number.


The New Shepard booster took off from West Texas at 12:06 p.m. CDT (1:07 p.m. EDT; 1707 GMT). Credit: Blue Origin

The privately-developed New Shepard booster, designed and built by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin, took off from a launch pad in West Texas, briefly flew into space with an instrumented capsule, and returned to a rocket-assisted landing Sunday in another test before humans climb aboard the suborbital spaceship.

The hydrogen-fueled rocket lifted off from Blue Origin's test site near Van Horn, Texas, at 12:06 p.m. CDT (1:06 p.m. EDT; 1706 GMT), a few seconds after igniting its BE-3 main engine for a pre-launch health check.

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The single-stage rocket, named for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, climbed through the stratosphere, then cut off its engine around 2 minutes, 16 seconds, after liftoff.

About 20 seconds later, an unpiloted crew capsule released from the top of the booster, and the vehicles soared to the edge of space.

A live webcast of the test flight provided by Blue Origin showed the vehicles coasting to an apogee of roughly 351,000 feet, or about 107 kilometers, around four minutes into the mission. The rocket achieved a top speed of around 2,200 mph (3,540 kilometers per hour), according to data released by Blue Origin.

Ariane Cornell, who hosted Blue Origin's launch webcast, said engineers intended to "push the envelope" of the New Shepard's capabilities, aiming to reach an altitude of 350,000 feet, around 20,000 feet higher than the rocket's typical target.

"That's the altitude we've been targeting for operations," Bezos tweeted after Sunday's flight.

The two vehicles then made their descents, and the New Shepard booster fell back through the atmosphere, deployed an airbrake and reignited its throttleable BE-3 engine to slow its velocity for touchdown. Four landing legs extended from the base of the New Shepard booster just before it settled gently on a landing pad around 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the rocket's launch site.


Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket makes its final descent on Sunday's flight. Credit: Blue Origin

The rocket landed about seven minutes after liftoff, while the crew capsule deployed three parachutes and fired retro-rockets to cushion the craft's landing on the desert floor approximately 10 minutes after launch. A live view from a flying drone captured spectacular views of the capsule's final descent.

Sunday's flight was delayed several hours to due to thunderstorms near Blue Origin's sprawling West Texas launch base.

Sunday's test flight reused the same New Shepard booster and space capsule that made their first launch in December, and it was the eighth test flight overall for Blue Origin's suborbital space tourism vehicle.

The rocket flown Dec. 13 and on Sunday is Blue Origin's third New Shepard vehicle, featuring changes to make the rocket easier to refurbish and reuse between missions. 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. The "Crew Capsule 2.0" vehicle was re-flown Sunday.

Like the December test flight, a dummy dubbed "Mannequin Skywalker" was strapped into the crew capsule to simulate the conditions passengers riding the rocket will one day experience.

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. Officials have not said how many more uncrewed test flights are planned before people ride the New Shepard rocket.

But Blue Origin is already offering rides for government and commercial research payloads, and more experiments were aboard the unpiloted crew capsule Sunday. It was the second time customer payloads were launched by Blue Origin.

"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 included 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 flew 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 also flew 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 2020.

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.

Cornell said Sunday that passengers who fly on the New Shepard rocket will get "first dibs" on riding the New Glenn rocket, which will eventually carry people into Earth orbit.

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Jeff Bezos‏Подлинная учетная запись @JeffBezos 9 мин. назад

The lucky boots worked again. Huge kudos and thanks to the entire @BlueOrigin team. #GradatimFerociter

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New Shepard launch & landing, April 2018

SciNews

Опубликовано: 29 апр. 2018 г.

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[Василий Ратников]

Все идет по плану ) нечего даже обсуждать
ни поныть что все пропало, ни позлорадствовать что взорвалось.
скучна. это замечательно )))

[Сергей]

Срабатывание САС смотрится конечно намного интересней. А так, стиль работы команды Безоса - "по плану" , без излишней спешки - как то больше мне импонирует.

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Apogee 351,000 Feet

Blue Origin

Опубликовано: 29 апр. 2018 г.

New Shepard flew again for the eighth time on April 29, 2018, from Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 8 (M8 ), the mission featured a reflight of the vehicle flown on Mission 7. The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 351,000 feet (66 miles, 107 kilometers) – the altitude we've been targeting for operations.

For the second time, Blue Origin's test dummy "Mannequin Skywalker" flew to space conducting astronaut telemetry and science studies. The flight also carried research payloads for NASA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and commercial customers.

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Василий Ратников пишет:
Все идет по плану ) нечего даже обсуждать
ни поныть что все пропало, ни позлорадствовать что взорвалось.
скучна. это замечательно )))

Дык пока это детские игры в песочнице. Взросление начнется с подходом к пределу прочности материалов. Ваш неподдельный восторг вполне понятен, вам тоже еще предстоит повзрослеть  

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Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 2 мин. назад

Ok, you all convinced me. One New Shepard pic for tonight! You're going to have to wait until tomorrow for the others though!

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust May 22

Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin: key for us in the next few months is continued BE-4 engine testing. Up to 70% thrust, 114-sec duration. #SpaceTechExpo

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Прогресс налицо - 70 %, до этого было 65 % от проектной номинальной тяги. Но самое интересное впереди - сможет ли добраться до 100 %? И когда?

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 37 мин. назад

As the UAG talks about scheduling meetings, I've moved to the DC convention center for an "Earth and Space" track of the AWS Public Sector Summit. Rob Meyerson of Blue Origin is giving a keynote shortly.

22 мин. назад

Meyerson described the first New Shepard test flight, where the capsule landed safely but the booster did not, as a "perfect expendable flight."

19 мин. назад

Meyerson: we plan to start flying test passengers on New Shepard "soon" and selling tickets in 2019.

14 мин. назад

Meyerson: I'm going to show you a video of a BE-4 engine test. It may seem long and uneventful to you, but that's exactly what you want in an engine test.

12 мин. назад

Meyerson: BE-4 engine testing continues, leading to full qualification by next year.

10 мин. назад

Meyerson: we think setting up colonies on the Moon is the next step; want to support that with Blue Moon lander.

5 мин. назад

Meyerson notes, not surprisingly, that AWS is a "key enabler" to Blue Origin, including his advanced technology unit. No Q&A.

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New Shepard сертифицирован для пилотируемых полетов? Кем, NASA или FAA?

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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

KZAB

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