Lot NS-15 (14.04.2021) BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 15 KWIETNIA 2021
Rakieta New Shepard na stanowisku startowym / Credits – Blue OriginLot pojazdu suborbitalnego o oznaczeniu New Shepard nastąpił 14 kwietnia 2021. Start nastąpił około 18:50 CEST. Lot odbył się ze stanowiska firmy Blue Origin w Teksasie – stamtąd też w przyszłości będą wykonywane loty załogowe.
Po udanym locie doszło do lądowania zarówno rakiety (na silniku rakietowym) jak i kapsuły (na spadochronach). Cały lot NS-15 zakończył się po 10 minutach od startu. Osiągnięty pułap lotu przekroczył 106 km. (...)
https://kosmonauta.net/2021/04/lot-ns-15-14-04-2021/Blue Origin NS-15: New Shepard launch and landing, 14 April 202128 812 wyświetleń•14 kwi 2021
Blue Origin practices crew operations on suborbital test flightApril 14, 2021 Stephen Clark
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lifts off at 12:51 p.m. EDT (11:51 a.m. CDT; 1651 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: Blue Origin(...)Wednesday’s flight marked the 15th flight of a New Shepard booster and crew capsule, and the second launch and landing of Blue Origin’s newest reusable rocket and spacecraft.
Blue Origin has already launched scientific experiments to space for NASA, but the New Shepard is designed to fly space tourists, scientists, and commercial and government astronauts above the atmosphere, providing expansive views and a brief taste of microgravity. (...)
Passengers will be able to unstrap from their seats and float around the cabin, and will have a few minutes of weightlessness before climbing back into their seats and falling back into the atmosphere.
Blue Origin personnel rehearsed how customers will board the six-seat crew capsule before Wednesday’s launch. Four employees stood in as astronauts and rode to the launch pad inside a Ford SUV with two support crew members.
After arriving at the pad, the astronaut stand-ins climbed stairs up the launch pad tower and walked across an access gantry leading to the spacecraft sitting atop the already-fueled New Shepard booster. Two employees — Gary Lai, Blue Origin’s New Shepard designer, and Audrey Powers, the company’s vice president of legal and compliance — entered the capsule through the hatch and strapped into seats.
The other four seats aboard the spacecraft — named “RSS First Step” — were occupied by boxes containing children’s postcards and Mannequin Skywalker, Blue Origin’s flight suit-clad test dummy that has flown on past launches.
RSS stands for Reusable Spaceship.
Blue Origin crews at the West Texas test site also practiced how they will help passengers out of the capsule after landing. Recovery teams quickly converged on the spacecraft after touchdown in the desert, and approached the capsule with mobile stairs and other equipment.
The dress rehearsal Wednesday was the first time Blue Origin has practiced in real conditions how it will help passengers board the spacecraft on top of a booster fully loaded with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants.
The company has not said how much it will charge customers for a ride to the edge of space on the New Shepard rocket. But NASA is interested in flying researchers and astronauts on the booster to conduct scientific experiments and to train for longer-duration flights in orbit.
Blue Origin’s Audrey Powers inside the crew capsule before Wednesday’s test flight. Credit: Blue Origin(...)
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