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Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn’s second flight due to bad weather
Blue Origin has postponed the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, which was slated to send a pair of NASA spacecraft on the first step of their journey to Mars on Sunday afternoon. The heavy-lift launch vehicle was scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:45PM ET., but multiple holds were issued during the under-two-hour launch window due to inclement weather. Blue Origin called off the launch attempt around 4:13PM.
The next launch opportunity is as yet unclear. Blue Origin was previously given a backup opportunity set for Monday afternoon, but the FAA has since issued an emergency order restricting commercial launches for the time being due to the government shutdown. As of November 10, commercial space launches can only take place between 10:00PM and 6:00AM. Blue Origin said...
Blue Origin conducts first flight of second human-rated New Shepard
Top Stories Tamfitronics WASHINGTON — Blue Origin carried out the first flight of a new model of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Oct. 23, a mission the company called “nominal and on target” despite going to a slightly lower altitude than past flights.The uncrewed NS-27 mission lifted off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 11:26 a.m. Eastern. The company had scrubbed an initial launch attempt Oct. 7 for unspecified technical issues that could not be resolved before the launch window closed, and Blue Origin called off a second attempt Oct. 13 “to troubleshoot a GPS issue.”Unlike past New Shepard flights, the company did not publicly release statistics about the flight, including peak altitude and speed. The webcast of the flight followed the booster, not the capsule, after separation, showing it appear...
Blue Origin flies NASA-funded scientist and space tourists on New Shepard suborbital flight
NASA Space Technology New Shepard's propulsion module makes a powered landing during the NS-26 mission Aug. 29. Credit: Blue Origin webcastWASHINGTON — Blue Origin took six people, including a NASA-funded researcher, on a New Shepard suborbital spaceflight Aug. 29.New Shepard lifted off into cloudy skies at the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 9:07 a.m. Eastern. The crew capsule reached a peak altitude of 105.3 kilometers above sea level before landing 10 minutes and 8 seconds after liftoff.The NS-26 mission carried six people, among them Rob Ferl, a University of Florida professor who conducted experiments on how gene expression in one type of plant changes when exposed to different phases of flight, including microgravity.Ferl, a longtime advocate of using commercial suborbital vehicles for research, also sought to demonstrate the utility of such...
Blue Origin targets mid-October for New Glenn’s inaugural flight and launch of NASA’s Escapade Mars mission
NASA Space Technology Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy-lift rocket and its Mars-bound NASA payload now have a tentative launch date. The company said on Friday that the inaugural flight will take place no earlier than October 13, carrying two probes built by Rocket Lab to help NASA study the effects of solar wind on Mars’ atmosphere. This will be the first time New Glenn flies after years of delays in its development, and the date cuts well into the window of opportunity for travel to Mars, which occurs roughly every two years based on the planetary alignments. That launch period opens on September 29 and extends to mid-October, per Ars Technica.The mission will lift off from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The twin spacecraft of NASA’s Escape and...
