- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Shepard rocket for the first time in over a year.
- “We’re targeting a launch window that opens on Dec. 18 for our next New Shepard payload mission,” Blue Origin said.
- The mission will mark the suborbital rocket’s return to flight, after a more than 14-month hiatus due to a midlaunch failure during a cargo mission in September 2022.
The New Shepard rocket launches from Blue Origin’s private facility in West Texas, carrying people and payloads above 100 kilometers, or more than 340,000 feet, for a couple minutes of weightlessness. The capsule is flown autonomously, with no human pilot, and floats down with the assistance of a set of parachutes to land in the Texas desert. The New Shepard rocket booster is reusable, returning to land on a concrete pad near the launch site.
To date, Blue Origin has flown 31 people past the edge of space with New Shepard.
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