Blue Origin lofts NASA and student experiments in New Shepard tomorrow morning

Blue Origin lofts NASA and student experiments in New Shepard tomorrow morning

By Devin Coldewey

The 11th mission for Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle is slated for takeoff Tuesday morning. The craft will be carrying 38 (!) experimental payloads from NASA, students, and research organizations around the world. You’ll be able to watch the launch live tomorrow at about 6 AM Pacific time.

New Shepard, though a very different beast from the Falcon 9 and Heavy launch vehicles created by its rival SpaceX, is arguably a better platform for short-duration experiments that need to be exposed to launch stresses and microgravity. Launching satellites — that’s a job for Falcons and Deltas, or perhaps Blue Origin’s impending New Glenn, and they’re welcome to it. But researchers around the country are clamoring for spots on suborbital flights and Blue Origin is happy to provide them.

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 https://t.co/XNq9WB3aZ2 #NS11 pic.twitter.com/wVNRYgKsjY

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) May 1, 2019

Tomorrow’s launch will be carrying several dozen, some of which will have been waiting years for …read more

Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

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