Watch live: Blue Origin New Shepard readies for uncrewed launch

September 12, 2022

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Blue Origin plans to launch its subsequent space mission and you may watch the uncrewed motion dwell.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital car will elevate off Monday (Sept. 12) from the corporate’s West Texas launch web site, which is close to the city of Van Horn. You possibly can watch it dwell on House.com, courtesy of Blue Origin, or instantly through the corporate.

The webcast will start about 20 minutes earlier than launch, the corporate has mentioned, and launch is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).

Blue Origin initially hoped to launch the mission — referred to as NS-23, as a result of it will likely be the twenty third New Shepard flight — on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, however unhealthy climate circumstances prevented the liftoff on each days.

The NS-23 mission is not carrying any space tourists aloft. It is a cargo-only flight that may take 36 payloads on a short jaunt to suborbital space and again, 18 of them funded by NASA.

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“Twenty-four payloads are from Ok-12 faculties, universities and STEM-focused organizations,” Blue Origin wrote in an Aug. 24 update (opens in new tab), which has detailed descriptions of a few of the experiments. (“STEM” stands for “science, expertise, engineering and math.”)

“That is double the variety of education-focused payloads from earlier payload flight manifests,” the corporate, which is run by Jeff Bezos, added within the replace. “In lots of circumstances, these payloads expose college students as younger as elementary faculty to STEM abilities like coding, environmental testing and CAD [computer-aided design] design usually not taught till faculty.”

New Shepard consists of a rocket and a capsule, each of that are reusable. Blue Origin presently operates two New Shepard autos, one for space tourism and one for payload-only flights.

The corporate has launched six crewed missions thus far, all of them since July 2021. NS-23 would be the first payload-only flight since August of final yr.

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