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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #1 on: 05/01/2019 03:50 pm »
https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1123615030098837505

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We are targeting the next launch of #NewShepard tomorrow May 2nd at 8:30 am CDT / 13:30 UTC. The mission will take 38 microgravity research payloads to space. Watch the launch live at http://www.blueorigin.com  #NS11
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #2 on: 05/01/2019 03:59 pm »
I wonder if this is going to be the human rated booster & capsule used for the first time.

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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #4 on: 05/02/2019 01:30 am »
Link to live webcast:

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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #5 on: 05/02/2019 02:44 am »
ARTICLE: New Shepard to conduct science mission ahead of upcoming passenger flights -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/05/new-shepard-science-mission-upcoming-passenger-flights/

- By Chris Gebhardt

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1123779980914245633
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #6 on: 05/02/2019 09:16 am »
NASA TV is hosting New Shepard live webcast too:

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May 1, 2019
NASA and Blue Origin Help Classrooms and Researchers Reach Space

“We are now on the verge of giving students and teachers the ability to build and fly affordable experiments in space. When teachers are this excited about putting experiments in space, their students can’t help but get excited about space, too.”

Elizabeth Kennick, president of Teachers in Space, does not take the opportunity to fly an experiment to space for granted. The nonprofit organization has worked with educators and engineers to design and test standard equipment for classroom-developed experiments, including 3D-printed frames, customizable processors, power adaptors and more. The equipment first flew on high-altitude balloons and more recently on a stratospheric glider. Now, thanks to support from NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, the equipment will fly higher than ever before: to space on the next launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

Nine NASA-supported payloads are expected to ride on New Shepard, targeting liftoff from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch site no earlier than May 2 at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Blue Origin’s live launch webcast will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

“It’s such a huge milestone,” said Kennick. “This opens the door to flying more experiments for more schools, and that means exposing more teachers and students to the promise of spaceflight.”

That promise is bolstered by Flight Opportunities, which lets researchers test technologies in a relevant environment—particularly innovations that will help NASA return to the Moon and send crewed missions to Mars.

The payloads will experience the rigors of a rocket launch and the challenges of a zero-gravity environment. These conditions will give researchers valuable insights into how their technologies would hold up on exploration missions.

A 3D printing experiment from the University of Kentucky could further advance in space manufacturing—a critical capability for long-term stays on the lunar surface. While there are 3D printers on the International Space Station, the university’s experiment, if successful, would provide the capability to manufacture metal components in space.

Future explorers will need protection from potentially negative effects of deep space travel. With a new suborbital centrifuge from NanoRacks, researchers may be able to collect biological and physical data on suborbital rocket flights. A space-based centrifuge can simulate the gravity environment on the Moon or Mars. The capability could make it faster and cheaper to gather critical data.

Missions to the Moon and the Red Planet will also require advanced fuel gauging systems— giving accurate measurements of the amount of propellant onboard vehicles operating in deep space without the need for complex procedures. A propellant gauging experiment from Purdue University aims to do just that.

The other Flight Opportunities—supported payloads aboard this launch are:

Evolved Medical Microgravity Suction Device
Orbital Medicine, Inc., Richmond, Virginia
This medical device could assist in treating space-based emergencies, such as a collapsed lung. It would collect blood in microgravity, allow lungs to continuously inflate, and store blood for transfusion.

Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2
NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston
This instrumentation package is designed to characterize the flight environment (e.g., acceleration, acoustics, temperature, pressure, humidity) of suborbital vehicles that are candidates for testing new space technologies.

Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
This thermal management technique addresses the limitations of current cooling methods for miniaturized devices and electronics needed for technology payloads on space-bound missions.

BioChip SubOrbitalLab
HNu Photonics, LLC, Kahului, Hawaii
This experiment aims to enable researchers to observe cell function in real time during flight, in order to understand how microgravity and space exposure effects human physiology—critical insights for long-duration missions.

Strata-S1
University of Central Florida, Orlando
This payload addresses the need for detailed understanding of the behavior of space dust, regolith and other particles on the surfaces of small bodies in space, to inform both robotic and human space exploration.

About Flight Opportunities
The Flight Opportunities program is funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington and managed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley manages the solicitation and evaluation of technologies to be tested and demonstrated on commercial flight vehicles.

Blue Origin and other U.S. commercial spaceflight providers are contracted to provide flight services to NASA for flight testing and technology demonstration. Researchers from academia and industry with concepts for exploration, commercial space applications or other space utilization technologies of potential interest to NASA can receive grants from the Flight Opportunities program to purchase suborbital flights from these and other U.S. commercial spaceflight providers. For information about these opportunities, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunities/opportunities

By Nicole Quenelle
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
Last Updated: May 1, 2019
Editor: Loura Hall

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/feature/NASA_and_Blue_Origin_Help_Classrooms_and_Researchers_Reach_Space
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #8 on: 05/02/2019 01:12 pm »
Here we go.
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #9 on: 05/02/2019 01:13 pm »
Launch coverage has started.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #10 on: 05/02/2019 01:14 pm »
Carrying 38 payloads today.
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #11 on: 05/02/2019 01:14 pm »
"One step closer to flying people later this year".
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« Reply #12 on: 05/02/2019 01:16 pm »
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #13 on: 05/02/2019 01:16 pm »
New Shepard milestones. 2000 people at Blue.
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #14 on: 05/02/2019 01:17 pm »
2,000 employees. 2,600 employees by the end of the year.

And a lot of headhunting. Lots and lots of KSC workers with SLS and other elements have been jumping over to Blue. Far superior employment packages, they say.
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #15 on: 05/02/2019 01:18 pm »
T-15 minutes. The RSS HG Wells.
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« Reply #16 on: 05/02/2019 01:19 pm »
Still looks like an owl face to me :)
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #17 on: 05/02/2019 01:21 pm »
T-12 minutes. Previous abort tests.
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Re: New Shepard - Flight 11
« Reply #18 on: 05/02/2019 01:22 pm »
T-10 minutes.
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