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Watch Blue Origin debut 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket on Oct. 13 after delay
Blue Origin's uncrewed NS-27 mission will launch at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) on Oct. 13, nearly a week after a scrubbed first attempt.
Blue Origin will try again to debut its second human-rated spacecraft on Sunday (Oct. 13), nearly a week after technical issues thwarted its first launch attempt.
Jeff Bezos' aerospace company is gearing up to to launch its uncrewed NS-27 mission at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) on Sunday to send a brand-new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo on a brief trip to suborbital space. The planned liftoff comes six days after Blue Origin's first NS-27 launch on Oct. 7 was called off due to a rocket issue.
"Always disappointing to get to this point," Joel Eby, creative director at Blue Origin, said during the company's launch webcast of the scrub. "But, you know, we want to make sure all these systems are completely ready to go and be certain about the launch conditions for flight." You'll be able to watch the new NS-27 launch attempt live online on BlueOrigin.com and this page, starting about 10 minutes before launch at 8:20 a.m. EDT (1220 GMT) on Oct. 13.
NS-27 will mark the debut of the second human-rated New Shepard vehicle, which consists of a first stage known as Booster 5 and a crew capsule named RSS K rm n Line. (The K rm n line is the 62-mile-high boundary that many people regard as the start of outer space.)
"The vehicle features technology upgrades to improve the vehicle's performance and reusability, an updated livery and accommodations for payloads on the booster," Blue Origin wrote in a statement on Oct. 4.
No people will launch aboard NS-27, but the mission will fly 12 research payloads, five of them on the booster and seven inside the capsule. This gear includes new navigation systems developed for New Shepard and Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket, as well as two LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors designed to operate in the lunar environment, according to Blue Origin.
As its name suggests, NS-27 will be the 27th New Shepard mission overall. Eight of the vehicle's 26 flights to date have been crewed, sending up to six people at a time on brief trips to the final frontier.
Those eight crewed flights have all used the same New Shepard vehicle - the Booster 4/RSS First Step combo. This second human-rated spacecraft will enable "expanded flight capacity to better meet growing customer demand," the company wrote in today's statement.
Sunday will be a busy day in spaceflight. In addition to Blue Origin's NS-27 launch, the company's rival SpaceX plans to launch its Starship Flight 5 test flight of Starship and Super Heavy, the world's largest and most powerful rocket. That mission will launch from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas at about 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).
Meanwhile, SpaceX's Crew-8 mission on the Dragon capsule Endeavour is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station early Sunday to begin the trip home for four astronauts.
Editor's note: This story was updated at on Oct. 12 with Blue Origin's new launch date and time for the NS-27 New Shepard launch.
== More info & links at:
https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-vehicle-debut-ns-27-launch
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