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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 06:42 PDT - 2 мая 2019 г.

Touchdown! This is the 11th landing of a New Shepard booster, and the 5th landing for this particular vehicle #NS11

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 06:45 PDT - 2 мая 2019 г.

Touchdown of the capsule!
#NS11

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Blue Origin‏Подлинная учетная запись @blueorigin 06:45 PDT - 2 мая 2019 г.

Congrats to the Blue Origin team on what looks to be another wholly successful flight #NS11
#LaunchLandRepeat

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 31 мин. назад

Blue Origin's New Shepard successfully conducts NS-11 mission.

ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/05/new-shepard-science-mission-upcoming-passenger-flights/ ...

- by Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF)

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Blue Origin NS-11 Live Webcast

Blue Origin

Трансляция началась 85 минут назад

New Shepard had a great mission on May 2, 2019. This particular rocket has flown to space and back 5 times. The mission flew 38 payloads for a variety of schools, universities, government agencies and private companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84qFp4_3nshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84qFp4_3ns (46:12)

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 48 мин. назад

Booster landing at T+7:25. Capsule still descending


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Capsule landing at T+10m 11s. Congrats @BlueOrigin Preliminary apogee 105.6 km

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/6397511

2 МАЯ, 16:56
Blue Origin провела очередные испытания корабля New Shepard

Носителю удалось совершить вертикальную посадку

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 2 мая. /ТАСС/. Американская компания Blue Origin провела в четверг в штате Техас 11-й испытательный полет разработанного ею суборбитального корабля New Shepard. Трансляцию вели на сайте компании.

Как отметила диспетчер запуска, капсула, которая в будущем будет предназначена для экипажа и пассажиров, приземлилась на парашютах. Носитель также совершил вертикальную посадку.

На борту New Shepard находились свыше 30 различных грузов, предназначенных для проведения экспериментов. Это, в частности, приборы, разработанные учеными ряда американских университетов, а также сотрудниками космических центров NASA.

Это второй испытательный полет New Shepard в текущем году. Предыдущий запуск был осуществлен 23 января.

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Как заявила 8 января глава отдела по стратегии и продажам Blue Origin Ариан Корнелл, компания намеревается отправить туристов в суборбитальный полет "в начале 2019 года". В июле прошлого года представители Blue Origin сообщили журналистам, что одно место на New Shepard предположительно будет стоить $200-300 тыс. Корабль сможет брать на борт шесть человек.

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https://ria.ru/20190502/1553233666.html

Blue Origin провела успешные испытания суборбитального аппарата New Shepard
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ВАШИНГТОН, 2 мая - РИА новости. Компания Blue Origin успешно провела 11-е испытание суборбитального аппарата New Shepard, подняв 38 научных экспериментов на границу с космосом, трансляция полета велась на официальном сайте компании.

Ракета New Shepard стартовала с тестовой площадки в Западном Техасе в 16.35 мск. Для компании это 11-е беспилотное испытание и четвертый полет для этой многоразовой ракеты New Shepard.

В ходе нынешнего испытания New Shepard, оснащенная жидкостным ракетным двигателем ВЕ-3, поднялась на высоту 106 километров. В отделившейся от носителя капсуле, в которой в будущем будут находится космические туристы, на границу с космосом отправились 38 научных экспериментов, принадлежащих частным компаниям и НАСА.

Ракета New Shepard вернулась на Землю через 8 минут после запуска, полет капсулы продолжался около 10 минут, она совершила посадку на трех парашютах.

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В январе текущего года представитель Blue Origin Ариан Корнелл сообщила, компания начнет пилотируемые полеты New Shephard к концу 2019 года. Сообщалось, что продажа билетов на полеты на границу с космосом пока не началась.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/05/02/blue-origin-one-step-closer-to-human-flights-after-successful-suborbital-launch/

Blue Origin 'one step closer' to human flights after successful suborbital launch
May 2, 2019 | Stephen Clark


This image from Blue Origin's webcast of Thursday's mission shows the New Shepard's capsule just before touchdown in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin

Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research experiments.

The single-stage rocket took off from Blue Origin's privately-operated launch site north of Van Horn, Texas, at 9:35 a.m. EDT (8:35 a.m. CDT; 1335 GMT).

Named for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the rocket climbed into a clear sky powered by a hydrogen-fueled BE-3 main engine, which accelerated the vehicle to a speed of more than 2,200 mph (3,540 kilometers per hour) in less than two-and-a-half minutes.

After shutdown of the New Shepard's main engine, a pressurized crew capsule on top of the rocket separated as the vehicles coasted to a maximum altitude of more than 346,000 feet, or about 105.5 kilometers, according to preliminary flight data.

A batch of 38 microgravity research payloads, including nine sponsored by NASA, were stowed aboard the capsule as it experienced about three-to-four minutes of weightlessness as the suborbital spacecraft arced through the apogee, or high point, of its trajectory and began falling back to Earth.

The New Shepard booster deployed air brakes before reigniting its throttleable BE-3 engine to slow down for a vertical touchdown on four landing legs about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from its launch site at Blue Origin's sprawling West Texas facility.

Less than three minutes later, the capsule landed with the aid of three parachutes and retro-rockets to complete Blue Origin's 11th suborbital flight since April 2015.


The New Shepard booster lands in West Texas on Thursday after a successful flight to the edge of space. Credit: Blue Origin

Blue Origin has flown three versions of its reusable New Shepard rocket. The first rocket was lost in a crash on landing in 2015, and the second unit flew five times before retirement. A third New Shepard vehicle, which flew Thursday, has completed five successful missions.

Blue Origin delivered a fourth New Shepard propulsion module to the West Texas test site late last year from the company's factory in Kent, Washington. Officials said the fourth iteration of the New Shepard is the rocket that will carry people.

Blue Origin has not publicly disclosed when the latest New Shepard vehicle will debut, or which flight will be the first include human passengers.

Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin's head of astronaut strategy and sales, said that Thursday's launch and landing — a mission designated New Shepard 11, or NS-11 — moves the company "one step closer" to flying human passengers.

"Over the next couple of months, toward the end of this year, we are going to be flying humans on top of this rocket," said Cornell, who hosted Blue Origin's live webcast of Thursday's flight.

The crew capsule launched by the New Shepard booster will have six seats, each with its own window to give passengers expansive views during flight.

The New Shepard is a stepping stone to Blue Origin's larger ambitions, which include the development of a heavy-lift orbital-class rocket named the New Glenn. The inaugural launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral is scheduled for 2021.

Blue Origin's chief competitor in the commercial suborbital spaceflight market is Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson.

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Virgin Galactic's suborbital rocket plane, known as SpaceShipTwo, has completed two flights above an altitude of 50 miles (80 kilometers), both with people on-board.

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded commercial astronaut wings to Rick Sturckow, Mark Stucky, Dave Mackay, Mike Masucci and Beth Moses, the five Virgin Galactic employees who flew on the first two SpaceShipTwo flights to the edge of space. Like the U.S. Air Force and NASA, the FAA awards astronauts wings to individuals who fly above an altitude of 50 miles.

The SpaceShipTwo vehicle is dropped from a carrier jet high in the atmosphere, then fires a rocket motor to climb to its peak altitude. On commercial space tourist flights, Virgin Galactic expects SpaceShipTwo to reach at least 50 miles, similar to the height achieved on the craft's two most recent suborbital test flights in December and February.

Blue Origin says its New Shepard vehicle, which uses a much different flight profile, is designed to fly above the 62-mile-high (100-kilometer) Kármán line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space.

While Virgin Galactic has a roster of hundreds of would-be space tourists who have paid deposits for the $250,000 ticket to ride on SpaceShipTwo. Blue Origin has not announced a ticket price yet.

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При посадке капсулу не колбасило, как дракон2. Погода лучше? Или парашютная система?

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 мин. назад

OK @BlueOrigin released their official recap stats for NS-11. Surprisingly the launch was indeed at 1332 UTC, which implies I had a full 3 minute lag on the video stream. Apogee was 105.58 km and flight time 10 m 11 s. Max vel was 1.0 km/s.

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Max Andriyahov пишет:
При посадке капсулу не колбасило, как дракон2. Погода лучше? Или парашютная система?

начальная скорость которую гасить надо, меньше...