{"id":80731,"date":"2018-07-18T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/blue-origin-will-push-its-rocket-to-its-limits-with-high-altitude-emergency-abort-test-today"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:42:43","slug":"blue-origin-will-push-its-rocket-to-its-limits-with-high-altitude-emergency-abort-test-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/blue-origin-will-push-its-rocket-to-its-limits-with-high-altitude-emergency-abort-test-today","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin will push its rocket \u201cto its limits\u201d with high-altitude emergency abort test today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRDhdHRyyjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update July 18th, 11:35AM ET: <\/strong><\/em><em>Blue Origin pulled off another successful test launch today, landing both the New Shepard rocket and capsule after flight. The company ignited the capsule\u2019s emergency motor after it had separated from the rocket, pushing the spacecraft up to a top altitude of around 74 miles \u2014 a new record for Blue Origin. The firing also caused the capsule to sustain up to 10 Gs during the test, but Blue Origin host Ariane Cornell said \u201cthat is well within what humans can take, especially for such a short spurt of time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This morning, Jeff Bezos\u2019 aerospace company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blueorigin\/status\/1019190558936436737\">Blue Origin will attempt the ninth test flight of its sub-orbital rocket<\/a>, the New Shepard \u2014 a reusable vehicle designed to take tourists to the edge of space and back. And for this launch, the company will be testing out the vehicle\u2019s escape motor once again. That\u2019s the system that could help save the lives of future passengers if something were to go wrong during the climb through Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Like most vertical rockets, the New Shepard is designed to take off upright from a launchpad at Blue Origin\u2019s facilities in West Texas. Perched on top of the vehicle is a capsule for crew members, which the rocket carries skyward during flight. Once the New Shepard reaches an altitude of around 62 miles \u2014 what\u2019s often considered the edge of space \u2014 the capsule and rocket separate. If passengers were on board, that\u2019s when they would experience a few minutes of weightlessness. Then, both the capsule and rocket fall back to Earth. Parachutes deploy to gently land the capsule, while the rocket reignites its engine to land upright on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/18\/17583174\/blue-origin-new-shepard-rocket-launch-crew-escape-motor\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/18\/17583174\/blue-origin-new-...cape-motor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update July 18th, 11:35AM ET: Blue Origin pulled off another successful test launch today, landing both the New Shepard rocket and capsule after flight. The company ignited the capsule\u2019s emergency motor after it had separated from the rocket, pushing the spacecraft up to a top altitude of around 74 miles \u2014 a new record for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}