Delta IV Heavy, Falcon 9 Return Attempt and Blue Origin Live in the space of one week! (While the UEFA 2016 is on too! )
Watch the fourth flight of the same New Shepard hardware this Sunday. Liftoff is planned for approximately 10:15 am ET and the live webcast starts half an hour earlier at 9:45 am ET at www.blueorigin.com. On this flight, we’ll intentionally fail one string of parachutes on the capsule. There are three strings of chutes and two of the three should still deploy nominally and, along with our retrothrust system, safely land the capsule. Works on paper, and this test is designed to validate that. We’ll also use this flight to continue pushing the envelope on the booster. As always, this is a development test flight and anything can happen. Watching a rocket launch (and rocket landing!) might add a little extra fun with the kids on Father’s Day -- enjoy. Gradatim Ferociter! Jeff Bezos