Listening to: Singing In My Soul - Fly My Pretties

Well, as per usual with Blue Origin, there isn’t a whole lot of info - but they did do a test launch on Monday. Here is a little bit of info:

First rocket launched from spacesport owned by Amazon.com founder

Jeff Bezos’ secretive space enterprise launched its first rocket early Monday morning from an expanse of West Texas scrubland.

The liftoff of the unmanned craft lasted about a minute, said Roland Herwig, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman based in Oklahoma City. “That’s all the information I have,” he added.

Texas Spaceport Launches 1st Test Rocket

According to documents Blue Origin submitted to the FAA earlier this year, its New Shepard Resuable Launch Vehicle would be cone-shaped, about 50 feet tall and 22 feet in diameter at the base. It would consist of two stacked modules, one to provide propulsion, the other a crew capsule “capable of carrying three or more space flight participants,” according to the report to the agency.

Blue Origin Blasts Off

…it’s hard to characterize how successful the test was. This test should have involved a prototype rocket vehicle designed to go up no higher than 2,000 feet (610 meters), on a flight lasting no more than a minute, according to the environmental assessment filed with the FAA

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