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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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