{"id":11807,"date":"2015-11-25T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:07:53","slug":"videos-blue-origin-flies-a-suborbital-rocket-to-space-and-then-lands-it-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Blue Origin flies a suborbital rocket to space and then lands it safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Origin<\/a>, owned by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos,\u00a0flew an\u00a0un-crewed New Shepard reusable rocket to 105\u00a0kilometers (62.5 miles) altitude. The system returned to the ground to be prepared for another flight in a few weeks. Here is a video of the flight, which took place at Blue&#8217;s facility in West Texas:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pillaOxGCo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The booster rocket and the crew capsule of the New Shepard separate at high altitude and come down separately. The booster lands via\u00a0the power of its liquid hydrogen\/liquid oxygen engine while the crew capsule comes down via parachutes.<\/p>\n<p>There was no camera view of the separation\u00a0so they inserted\u00a0an animation of it\u00a0into the video. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/technology\" target=\"_blank\">a schematic<\/a> of the phases of the flight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/technology\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11808\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=11808\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"trajectory_white[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1-1024x498.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11808 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"trajectory_white[1]\" width=\"520\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/trajectory_white1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue plans an intensive test program for the New Shepard that will lead to commercial flights for science and technology R&amp;D flights by next summer. Passenger space tourism flights will start in a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos comments on the project in this video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/esTKcTWKA0w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The New Shepard is just for suborbital (100 km altitude) but it will be very similar to the upper stage of Blue&#8217;s two stage orbital rocket that is expected to fly in about 4 years from now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/technology\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11810\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=11810\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/orbital-spaceflight1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"488,444\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"orbital-spaceflight[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/orbital-spaceflight1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11810\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/orbital-spaceflight1.jpg\" alt=\"orbital-spaceflight[1]\" width=\"488\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/orbital-spaceflight1.jpg 488w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/orbital-spaceflight1-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><em>Artist&#8217;s rendition of Blue Origin&#8217;s two stage orbital rocket design.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the company Blue Origin, owned by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos,\u00a0flew an\u00a0un-crewed New Shepard reusable rocket to 105\u00a0kilometers (62.5 miles) altitude. The system returned to the ground to be prepared for another flight in a few weeks. Here is a video of the flight, which took place at Blue&#8217;s facility in West Texas: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Blue Origin flies a suborbital rocket to space and then lands it safely<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,94,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-industry","category-spaceflight-parabolic-flight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-34r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12446,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12446","url_meta":{"origin":11807,"position":0},"title":"Video: Blue Origin flies its New Shepard rocket to space and back","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Blue Origin, the space\u00a0company owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, flew their New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket vehicle for the third time last Saturday. 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