Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to space

Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to space

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/watch-blue-origins-10th-new-shepard-mission-launch-a-science-loaded-capsule-to-space/

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is about to undertake the 10th launch of its New Shepard launch vehicle, with its capsule chock full of experiments. The launch, which was originally scheduled for a month ago but delayed for various reasons, will take place tomorrow at 6:50 AM Pacific time.

New Shepard is a sub-orbital space-visiting platform, not a satellite-launching one. But it uses a very traditional method of getting to the edge of space compared with Virgin Galactic’s rather involved mothership-spaceship combo, which scraped the very edge of space in its fourth test launch last month.