{"id":775863,"date":"2023-12-19T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775863"},"modified":"2023-12-19T18:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:33:50","slug":"blue-origins-new-shepard-completes-24th-flight-new-glenn-hopefully-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775863","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin&#8217;s New Shepard Completes 24th Flight; New Glenn Hopefully on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket successfully launched and landed today at the company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas, with an uncrewed science and goodwill payload onboard. This was the 24th New Shepard flight and 13th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas.<\/p>\n<p>This marked the first flight since September of 2022 when the uncrewed NS-23\u2019s booster suffered an in-flight anomaly; however, the escape system jettisoned the capsule, which was able to land safely. With the success of NS-24, Blue Origin hopes to soon restart its commercial passenger flights.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-164905\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to flying our next crewed flight soon,\u201d said Erika Wagner, senior director of emerging market development for Blue Origin, at the end of the launch broadcast. Watch the liftoff and landing below. <\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 10:43 Central Time, with the capsule reaching about 106 km (66 miles) at its highest point. \u00a0The 33 science experiments on board experienced about three minutes of microgravity before the capsule safely touched down under three parachutes \u2014 with a retrorocket to cushion the landing \u2014 approximately 10 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The rocket booster touched down vertically about seven minutes after launch, on a landing pad 3.2km north of the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>The first launch attempt for the mission was scrubbed on Monday due to a ground system issue. But today\u2019s countdown and launch went smoothly.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>The payloads on board included research from NASA, academia, research institutions, and commercial companies, as well as student experiments from classrooms in Maine, New Mexico, and Kansas. New Origin said New Shepard has now flown more than 150 payloads to space. Also on board were about 38,000 postcards as part the company\u2019s Postcards to Space program. Each postcard will be returned to its creator stamped \u201cFlown to Space.\u201d To send a postcard on future mission, see the company\u2019s Club for the Future website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA special thank you to all of our customers who flew important science today and the students who contributed postcards to advance our future of living and working in space for the benefit of Earth,\u201d said Phil Joyce, Senior Vice President, New Shepard, in a press release. \u201cDemand for New Shepard flights continues to grow and we\u2019re looking forward to increasing our flight cadence in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-24 Webcast\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSzi1lHaqlQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-will-new-glenn-fly\">When will New Glenn fly?<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, Blue Origin is hoping to finally deliver on their next big project, the massive New Glenn rocket which will be capable of bringing satellites and other large payloads to orbit and beyond. But the rocket is years behind schedule. Initially, Jeff Bezos said that New Glenn would be ready to launch by 2020, but the latest estimate is that the first launch is expected to take place no earlier than August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and Blue Origin announced in February 2023 that the first launch of New Glenn will carry NASA\u2019s EscaPADE spacecraft to Mars. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission is a small planetary science mission that will use two spacecraft to measure plasma and magnetic fields around the Mars. With simultaneous observations from two locations in orbit, scientists hope to learn more about the processes that strip away atoms from the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>In rocketry, size definitely matters. Image: Blue Origin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Glenn will reach a towering height of 95 meters (313 ft) which will dwarf any other commercially available vehicle. And it will be capable of delivering 45 metric tons, almost 100,000 pounds, into space. <\/p>\n<p>But if New Glenn can\u2019t get off the ground by late 2024, it will miss the launch Mars launch window, and the mission will have to be delayed until 2026. Mars launch windows typically come every 26 months. ESCAPADE was originally scheduled to launch as a secondary payload NASA\u2019s Psyche mission which blasted off on a Falcon Heavy rocket in October, but NASA removed ESCAPADE from the launch because it would not provide the mission with the proper trajectory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-24000880-164905-658227019364b\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=24000880&amp;post_id=164905&amp;origin=www.universetoday.com&amp;obj_id=24000880-164905-658227019364b\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-24000880-164905-658227019364b\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/164905\/blue-origins-new-shepard-completes-24th-flight-new-glenn-hopefully-on-the-horizon\/?rand=772204\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket successfully launched and landed today at the company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas, with an uncrewed science and goodwill payload onboard. 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