{"id":19419,"date":"2016-04-03T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-jeff-bezos-shares-drones-eye-view-of-blue-origin-spaceships-flight\/"},"modified":"2016-04-03T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:55:04","slug":"video-jeff-bezos-shares-drones-eye-view-of-blue-origin-spaceships-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-jeff-bezos-shares-drones-eye-view-of-blue-origin-spaceships-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Jeff Bezos shares drone\u2019s-eye view of Blue Origin spaceship\u2019s flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_241548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241548\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-241548 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160403-launch-630x473.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Origin launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160403-launch-630x473.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160403-launch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160403-launch.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-241548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view from above shows Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship rising from its West Texas launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s&nbsp;test flight&nbsp;of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the first time a drone captured video of its&nbsp;launch from above.<\/p>\n<p>Those kinds of views have long been provided by SpaceX, one of Blue Origin\u2019s rivals in the reusable rocket business, and they\u2019re thrilling. The video that Blue Origin founder (and Amazon billionaire) Jeff Bezos shared today is in the same category \u2013 right down to the rockin\u2019 soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp to high thrust fast,\u201d Bezos said in a blog post accompanying the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YU3J-jKb75g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the third time in a row, New Shepard\u2019s propulsion module sent a crew capsule (sans crew) beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space and came back down to make a smooth vertical landing.<\/p>\n<p>The test at Blue Origin\u2019s West Texas launch facility followed up on successful flights in November and January, marking another victory for full rocket reusability and bringing the company&nbsp;closer to sending people on suborbital trips to space. Bezos says test flights with passengers could come as soon as next year, with commercial flights coming in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This flight also marked the first time scientific payloads were sent into outer space aboard the New Shepard crew capsule. One of the experiments was designed and built at the Southwest Research Institute, also known as SwRI. It simulated the dynamics of loosely bound rocky soil on near-Earth asteroids. Another experiment, from the University of Central Florida, studied how dust behaves&nbsp;in zero-G.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin selected the experiments for flight back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Box of Rocks Experiment (BORE)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dugpPEp2y78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been waiting for this day for a long time,\u201d UCF physicist Joshua Colwell said in a post-landing news release. \u201cA lot of talented students have helped to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colwell\u2019s&nbsp;project is known as the Microgravity Experiment on Dust Environments in Astrophysics, or MEDEA. It\u2019s part of a multi-experiment campaign called the Collisions Into Dust Experiment, or COLLIDE. The campaign is aimed at helping scientists understand the behavior of dust on small asteroids, and how space dust builds up to form planets and their rings.<\/p>\n<p>Previous COLLIDE payloads flew on space shuttle missions in 1998 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The experiments and data were recovered soon after New Shepard\u2019s crew capsule made its parachute landing. In UCF\u2019s news release, members of Blue Origin\u2019s team indicated that more suborbital space experiments would be flown during the test flights to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first step toward millions of people living and working in space was launching and landing New Shepard,\u201d Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson said. \u201cNow, our payload pathfinder customers are helping us take the next step by putting this reusable spacecraft to use in the name of science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collisions Into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVKBj4LmOm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2009, SwRI planetary scientist Alan Stern predicted that space research would someday become a \u201ckiller app\u201d for suborbital spaceflight and bring in more revenue for spaceship operators than space tourism. This weekend\u2019s research payloads were flown at no charge, due to the conditions for Blue Origin\u2019s experimental launch permit. Nevertheless, they mark two small steps toward realizing that vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuborbital spaceflight opens the door for an incredible range of scientific research and technology development, from biotech and materials science to fluid physics and engineering,\u201d said Erika Wagner, Blue Origin\u2019s head of payload programs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Blue Origin said it would charge as little as $5,300 to send student payloads on suborbital space trips \u2013 once the Federal Aviation Administration grants a commercial launch license for New Shepard. The company, which is headquartered in Kent, Wash., is also working on a more ambitious orbital space program that will eventually launch payloads from a Florida facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A view from above shows Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship rising from its West Texas launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Saturday\u2019s&nbsp;test flight&nbsp;of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the first time a drone captured video of its&nbsp;launch from above. Those kinds of views have long been provided by SpaceX, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,291,1046,1250],"class_list":["post-19419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-commercial-space","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-new-shepard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}