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- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Shepard rocket for the first time in more than a year.
- “We are targeting a launch window that opens on December 18 for our next Shepard mission,” Blue Origin said.
- The mission will mark the return of the rocket under flight, after a more than 14-month hiatus due to the failure of the launch during the loading in the month of September 2022.
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifted off with a crew of six from Launch Site One in West Texas on December 11, 2021.
Joe Skipper | Reuters
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Shepard rocket for the first time in more than a year, the company said on Tuesday.
“We are targeting a launch window to open on December 18 for our next Shepard mission,” Blue Spring said inside social media advertisingnot long ago Bloomberg reports the relevant date.
The launch of New Shepard, designated NS-24, will be a cargo mission, carrying research and scientific payloads. The mission will mark the return of the rocket under flight, after a more than 14-month hiatus due to the failure of the launch during the loading in the month of September 2022.
The Federal Aviation Administration closed its investigation into the disappearance of NS-23 earlier this year. The agency required Blue Origin to make adjustments “to improve operational performance during operational and organizational changes” to the company.
The time of the anomaly during the New Shepard cargo mission NS-23, where the booster engine failed.
Blue Spring
The New Shepard rocket is launched from Blue Origin’s private facility in West Texas, carrying people and cargo more than 100 kilometers, or more than 340,000 feet, for several minutes of weightlessness. . The cabin flies together, without a human pilot, and floats down with the help of a set of parachutes to land in the Texas desert. The New Shepard rocket booster is reusable, returning to land on a concrete pad near the launch site.
To date, Blue Origin has sent 31 people beyond the edge of space with New Shepard.
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