Ninth mission of Blue Origin breaks its own test flight record, reaches 120 km altitude during crew escape test

The ninth launch took place in Texas facility of Blue Origin.
Mission objective was safe landing of crew when any anomaly occur at any time during the launch thus it was a pad abort test.
Jeff Bezos led startup tested a live separation test of its crew capsule from the rocket booster.
The duration of launch lasted for 2 min and 30 sec.
The mission went successful and the crew capsule touched the altitude of 120 km altitude.
This mission was the third mission of New Shepard .
The mission went as expected by company with complete mission success.
The vehicle attained a top speed of 3,598 kmph.
The crew capsule seat was occupied by a mannequin(dummy) as passenger .
In the test dummy astronaut experienced 10 Gs which is in safe limit.
The crew capsule fired its escape motor at right time.
As the whole launch vehicle(New Shepard) was based on reusable launch vehicle technology the capsule and booster can be recovered safely.
The capsule uses two parachute for land back to the earth.
The boosters are designed to separate after placing the capsule at particular height.
The boosters(main stage) comes back to landing pad with help of rocket powered breaking system and landing gears.
The company is trying to become completely operational by the end of the year.
It is expected that company will perform its first human crew test in the end of this year.
Previously this kind of mission was tested successfully by Space X

Watch video of mission 9 : https://youtu.be/NRDhdHRyyjc

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