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Blue Origin suffered a mishap Monday during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard capsule. A rocket failure roughly a minute after liftoff forced the company to perform an emergency abort midflight, triggering the spacecraft's escape system. The capsule, which had no humans on board, was seen jettisoning from the booster during a livestream of the launch, before a series of parachutes were deployed. The mission, known as NS-23, was carrying 36 payloads and experiments from various research institutions on an intended suborbital flight to the edge of space and back. The rocket lifted off at around 10:36 a.m. EDT from Blue Origin's dedicated launch site in West Texas, near Van Horn. The company, founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, conducts cargo-only missions as well as A New Shepard capsule containing science experiments after a launch failure Monday. Blue Origin via AP Monday's launch marked the 23rd flight of New Shepard. Both the capsule and booster are reusable, but it's not yet known if the rocket survived intact.

VAN HORN, Texas— The New Shepard rocket rumbled to life early Tuesday, catapulting Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and three others to the edge of space and allowing the world’s richest person to achieve a childhood dream. Back on Earth, spaceflight enthusiasts saw the brief voyage as the realization of decades of promise — the beginning of a new era for space tourism. “Space tourism is finally here,” said Alan Ladwig, author of the book “See You in Orbit? Our Dream of Spaceflight.” “It’s still going to be expensive, it’s still not going to be something everybody can do right away, but it’s a first step.” Bezos’ suborbital flight — his company Blue Origin’s first crewed launch — came a little over a week after British billionaire Richard Branson Although Blue Origin flew its first paying customer on Tuesday’s flight — 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, the son of a Dutch private equity executive and now the youngest person to go to space — it has yet to announce seat prices or additional details about its commercial operations. During a livestream of Tuesday’s launch, Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin’s director of astronaut sales, repeatedly encouraged interested customers to email the company. Already the company is approaching $100 million in private sales, Bezos told an assembled audience of guests, employees and reporters after the launch. An auction for a seat on Tuesday’s flight ended with a But suborbital flights aren’t the company’s only goal; Blue Origin plans to build a family ...

reader comments 477 with In the fall of 2017, shortly after he became chief executive officer of Blue Origin, Bob Smith received an extensive briefing on the state of the New Glenn rocket program. The projected launch date for the massive, reusable rocket was 2020, he was told. As Smith assessed the progress on New Glenn to date and drew upon his long experience at Honeywell Aerospace, he soon came to the conclusion that this launch date was unreasonable. "This is not a 2020 launch program," he said at this meeting. "This is a 2022 program, at best." Further Reading Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was not present for this, but his response afterward was that he would absolutely not accept any revision to the launch date for the large orbital rocket. Blue Origin should be optimistic with its projections, Bezos said. And then they should meet those projections. Bezos' rocket company, of course, did not meet those projections. Not only did New Glenn not launch in 2020, last week "Who does that?" asked one former employee of the company. "That excuse makes no sense." Blue Origin's New Glenn project is incredibly ambitious. If successfully developed, it would offer a revolutionary heavy-lift service to low Earth orbit, geostationary space, and even the Moon. So what really has gone wrong? Ars spoke with several former employees and industry officials familiar with the company for this story. A fateful decision As part of his overall space strategy, Bezos has been thinking about ...

Blue Origin suborbital rockets may soon rival SpaceX’s Falcon9. Private aerospace company The Story behind Blue Origin Suborbital Rockets Names Curiously, Jeff Bezos gives his launch vehicles the names of famous American astronauts. Blue Origin New Shepard is named after Bezos recently announced that his company is developing a third spacecraft but kept the details to himself. We only know that this carrier will also be named after an American astronaut – the legendary Neil Armstrong, who was the first to step on the moon. But let’s go back to the existing Blue Origin projects and find out how it all began. Charon The first Blue Origin aircraft, Charon, was named after Pluto’s moon. It was equipped with four Rolls-Royce Viper Mk jets. 301. and was designed for testing autonomous guidance and management technologies. Charon made its only test flight on 5th March 2005. It ascended to a height of 316 feet and made a controlled landing near the starting point. Goddard Between 2006 and 2007, Charon was replaced by Blue Origin Goddard, named after the American engineer and pioneer of rocket technology Robert Goddard. This spacecraft runs on proprietary engines designed by Blue Origin. It executed three successful launches. Blue Origin Goddard was only 25 seconds in flight. In 10 seconds, it gained an 85 m altitude and then safely landed on the supports. New Shepard Perhaps the company’s main development. The 60-foot suborbital space system includes a booster unit and a passenger...

Named after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space, New Shepard is our reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Whether you are an astronaut flying with Blue Origin or sending a payload to space, your 11-minute flight on New Shepard will be the experience of a lifetime. • Crew Capsule Pressurized crew capsule environmentally controlled for comfort with room for six and the largest windows to have flown in space. • Ring & Wedge Fins Aerodynamically designed to stabilize the booster and reduce fuel use on its flight back to Earth. • Drag Brakes Deploy from the ring fin to reduce the booster's speed by half on its descent from space. • Engine The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) propels the rocket to space and restarts for a controlled pinpoint landing on the pad. The uniquely throttleable engine slows the booster down to just 8 km/h (5 mph) for landing. • Aft Fins Stabilize the vehicle during ascent, steer it back to the landing pad on descent, and guide the rocket through airspeeds of up to Mach 4. • Landing Gear All rockets take off, not all rockets land. As a fully reusable rocket, the New Shepard booster uses landing gear that deploys for touchdown. Building a road to space starts with reusable vehicles and New Shepard is the first step in realizing that mission. The entire New Shepard system has been designed for operational reusability and ...

On Thursday, August 26, 2021, Blue Origin plans to conduct a suborbital flight of the company’s New Shepard launch vehicle. The single-stage rocket is scheduled to blast off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 08:35 CDT (local time) / 13:35 UTC, carrying 18 commercial payloads, NASA’s Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor Demonstration, as well as an art installation to the edge of space and back down to Earth. The mission, designated “NS-17”, will be the 17 th flight of a New Shepard and the company’s fourth flight in 2021. It was originally scheduled to occur 24 hours earlier on Wednesday, but was then postponed to Thursday. In contrast to the rocket’s last launch, no passengers will be flying onboard the rocket this time. The New Shepard launch vehicle The New Shepard, named after Project Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, is a single-stage, liquid-fueled, fully-reusable suborbital rocket, developed and operated by Blue Origin. The launch vehicle is designed to carry science experiments, as well as space tourists, to the edge of space and safely return them back to the planet. The rocket is launched from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas and has first flown on April 29, 2015. So far, New Shepard has conducted 14 flights over the Kármán line, an imaginary line used to define the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, as well as two successful inflight abort tests. New Shepard, in contrast to satellite-carrying orbital-class rocke...

• Draper, the first company to receive a private contract from NASA during the Apollo era, is developing a lunar navigation system called DMEN. • The system was recently tested aboard Blue Origin's NS-23 mission, which ultimately ended in failure. • Still, Draper was able to collect data, and it plans to test DMEN "at even higher altitudes and speeds on another flight test onboard New Shepard." U.S.-based firm Draper is developing a system that could work in lieu of GPS tracking on the Moon. Given its history and track record over more than half a century, the company is well-positioned to develop lunar navigation technology. For example, Draper was the very first firm to receive a private contract One of its latest gadgets, the Draper Multi-Environment Navigator (DMEN) system, uses vision-based terrain relative navigation technology. This allows it to pinpoint a spacecraft's exact location based on known features of the lunar surface. The system will help to position a spacecraft as it approaches the lunar surface, and it could form an important part of NASA's plans to establish a permanent presence on the Moon with its upcoming Artemis missions. Last year, DMEN flew aboard Blue Origin's 23rd New Shepard suborbital rocket mission, called NS-23. That mission experienced a However, the company's capsule escape system worked as intended and Draper was able to recover its payload. The company has since released a paper on the high-altitude test of DMEN. During that flight, DM...

reader comments 477 with In the fall of 2017, shortly after he became chief executive officer of Blue Origin, Bob Smith received an extensive briefing on the state of the New Glenn rocket program. The projected launch date for the massive, reusable rocket was 2020, he was told. As Smith assessed the progress on New Glenn to date and drew upon his long experience at Honeywell Aerospace, he soon came to the conclusion that this launch date was unreasonable. "This is not a 2020 launch program," he said at this meeting. "This is a 2022 program, at best." Further Reading Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was not present for this, but his response afterward was that he would absolutely not accept any revision to the launch date for the large orbital rocket. Blue Origin should be optimistic with its projections, Bezos said. And then they should meet those projections. Bezos' rocket company, of course, did not meet those projections. Not only did New Glenn not launch in 2020, last week "Who does that?" asked one former employee of the company. "That excuse makes no sense." Blue Origin's New Glenn project is incredibly ambitious. If successfully developed, it would offer a revolutionary heavy-lift service to low Earth orbit, geostationary space, and even the Moon. So what really has gone wrong? Ars spoke with several former employees and industry officials familiar with the company for this story. A fateful decision As part of his overall space strategy, Bezos has been thinking about ...

Named after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space, New Shepard is our reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Whether you are an astronaut flying with Blue Origin or sending a payload to space, your 11-minute flight on New Shepard will be the experience of a lifetime. • Crew Capsule Pressurized crew capsule environmentally controlled for comfort with room for six and the largest windows to have flown in space. • Ring & Wedge Fins Aerodynamically designed to stabilize the booster and reduce fuel use on its flight back to Earth. • Drag Brakes Deploy from the ring fin to reduce the booster's speed by half on its descent from space. • Engine The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) propels the rocket to space and restarts for a controlled pinpoint landing on the pad. The uniquely throttleable engine slows the booster down to just 8 km/h (5 mph) for landing. • Aft Fins Stabilize the vehicle during ascent, steer it back to the landing pad on descent, and guide the rocket through airspeeds of up to Mach 4. • Landing Gear All rockets take off, not all rockets land. As a fully reusable rocket, the New Shepard booster uses landing gear that deploys for touchdown. Building a road to space starts with reusable vehicles and New Shepard is the first step in realizing that mission. The entire New Shepard system has been designed for operational reusability and ...

On Thursday, August 26, 2021, Blue Origin plans to conduct a suborbital flight of the company’s New Shepard launch vehicle. The single-stage rocket is scheduled to blast off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 08:35 CDT (local time) / 13:35 UTC, carrying 18 commercial payloads, NASA’s Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor Demonstration, as well as an art installation to the edge of space and back down to Earth. The mission, designated “NS-17”, will be the 17 th flight of a New Shepard and the company’s fourth flight in 2021. It was originally scheduled to occur 24 hours earlier on Wednesday, but was then postponed to Thursday. In contrast to the rocket’s last launch, no passengers will be flying onboard the rocket this time. The New Shepard launch vehicle The New Shepard, named after Project Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, is a single-stage, liquid-fueled, fully-reusable suborbital rocket, developed and operated by Blue Origin. The launch vehicle is designed to carry science experiments, as well as space tourists, to the edge of space and safely return them back to the planet. The rocket is launched from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas and has first flown on April 29, 2015. So far, New Shepard has conducted 14 flights over the Kármán line, an imaginary line used to define the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, as well as two successful inflight abort tests. New Shepard, in contrast to satellite-carrying orbital-class rocke...