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tahanson43206

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Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

Louis created three topics about Blue Origin and it's human space flight operations.

This topic is offered for NewMars members who may find news about unmanned flights in which Blue Origin will play a role.

The first (that I am aware of) is planned for October 13, 2024, when an attempt will be made to launch a mission for NASA.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

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tahanson43206

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Re: Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

I asked Google to show any flights planned for the upcoming Hohmann Transfer window to Mars, and it found this one:

NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on October 13, 2024, using a Blue Origin New Glenn-1 launch vehicle. The mission will use two identical spacecraft to study how the solar wind interacts with Mars's magnetosphere and how this interaction causes the planet's atmosphere to escape. The mission will also investigate how solar radiation has stripped away the planet's formerly thick atmosphere over time.

The EscaPADE mission will use a Hohmann Type II transfer orbit and will reach Mars in September 2025. The orbits will be adjusted over about seven months until they reach their nominal science orbits in April 2026.

This appears to be an official NASA web site for the mission:
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecr … er%20orbit.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

Here's an update on preparations for the Hohmann Transfer launch in 40 days ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … d0aa&ei=12

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tahanson43206

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Re: Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

NASA has apparently decided to give up on New Glenn for the Hohmann Transfer window in October.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/maiden-voyag … 41440.html

There are no show stoppers at work.... instead NASA planners are merely cutting their losses caused by normal uncertainty as New Glenn prepares for it's first flight.

The two satellites were about to be fueled with hypergolic fuels, and NASA chose not to take the risk.

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Re: Blue Origin Unmanned Missions

The old Lockheed Atlas and Delta family of Boeing could have performed this had Nasa not decided that a first real mission of the replacements was required.