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This follows a launch attempt earlier this week which was scrubbed due to a combination of weather and avionics issues.

| Scheduled for UTC | 2025-01-30 15:30 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-01-30 09:30 (CST) | | Launch site | Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA | | Launch provider | Blue Origin | | Launch vehicle | New Shepard (NS5-2) | | Passengers | Uncrewed | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and safe landing of booster and capsule |

Livestreams

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| | Blue Origin | https://www.youtube.com/@blueorigin/streams | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/user/SEL9000/streams | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2juEh4qaf6A |

Stats

  • 1st New Shepard launch of 2025, 29th overall
  • 2nd Blue Origin launch of 2025, 30th overall

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7756

NS-29 will simulate the Moon’s gravity and fly 30 payloads, all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies.

The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA. The flight will test six broad lunar technology areas: In-situ resource utilization, dust mitigation, advanced habitation systems, sensors and instrumentation, small spacecraft technologies, and entry descent and landing. Proving out these technologies at lower cost is another step toward Blue Origin’s mission to lower the cost of access to space for the benefit of Earth. It also enables NASA and other lunar surface technology providers to test innovations critical to achieving Artemis program goals and exploring the Moon’s surface.

The New Shepard crew capsule is using its Reaction Control System (RCS) to spin up to approximately 11 revolutions per minute. This spin rate simulates one-sixth Earth gravity at the midpoint of the crew capsule lockers. In simulated lunar gravity, customers can accelerate their learning and technology readiness for lunar payloads at much lower cost.

Previous mission (New Glenn Flight 1) | Next mission (NS-30)

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Mission info

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-01-29, 00:53 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-01-29, 06:23 (IST) | | Launch site | Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India | | Launch Vehicle | GSLV Mark II | | Payloads | NVS-02 (IRNSS-1K) | | Payload mass | 2250 kg | | Mission success criteria | Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

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| | ISRO | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzg5Z-bcLo | Space Affairs | none | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEj1BHn8AY | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight:

☑️ 1st GSLV mission this year, 17th overall

☑️ 1st ISRO mission this year, 97th overall

Mission details

The NVS, previously IRNSS, constellation is not a global positioning constellation, like GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, or Beidou-3, but a regional one, similar to the Chinese Beidou-1 and 2, or the Japanese QZSS, serving only the Indian sub-continent. IRNSS satellites have two payloads: a navigation payload and CDMA ranging payload in addition to a laser retro-reflector. The payload generates navigation signals at L5 and S-band. The design of the payload makes the IRNSS system interoperable and compatible with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Galileo systems. The satellite is powered by two solar arrays, which generate up to 1,660 watts, and has a lifetime of ten years.

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One of China’s latest commercial launch companies has secured early funding as it aims to develop a launcher featuring first and second stage reuse.

Nayuta Space is developing a series of stainless steel rockets named Black Bird, referring to a creature from Chinese mythology rather than the common blackbird. The Xuanniao-1 (Black Bird-1) will use nine Canglong-1 methane-liquid oxygen engines developed by Beijing Aerospace Propulsion Technology Co. Ltd., a commercial rocket engine maker founded in 2018.

The first stage will, unlike the Falcon 9 for instance, not use a reentry burn, instead relying on “aerodynamic recovery,” using the atmosphere and positioning of the stage to do most of the deceleration.

Nayuta Space also aims for a Starship chopstick-style catch of the first stage, called an “eagle grab,” thus saving mass through not needing landing legs.

Second stage recovery is a more distant goal.

Nayuta Space stated in January 2024 that it aimed for launch of a reusable suborbital rocket in 2025 and a first orbital flight of a Black Bird-1 in 2026.

Slides of the company’s plans from 2023 indicate the launcher will be capable of carrying 10 tons to low Earth orbit when reused.

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| Scheduled for UTC | 2025-01-28 16:00 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-01-28 10:00 (CST) | | Launch site | Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA | | Launch provider | Blue Origin | | Launch vehicle | New Shepard (NS5-2) | | Passengers | Uncrewed | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and safe landing of booster and capsule |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |


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| | Blue Origin | https://youtube.com/watch?v=KGnmQJ9xqVo https://www.youtube.com/@blueorigin/streams | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJEkaZJMRso | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KNhgcij3Y |

Stats

  • 1st New Shepard launch of 2025, 29th overall
  • 2nd Blue Origin launch of 2025, 30th overall

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7756

NS-29 will simulate the Moon’s gravity and fly 30 payloads, all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies.

The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA. The flight will test six broad lunar technology areas: In-situ resource utilization, dust mitigation, advanced habitation systems, sensors and instrumentation, small spacecraft technologies, and entry descent and landing. Proving out these technologies at lower cost is another step toward Blue Origin’s mission to lower the cost of access to space for the benefit of Earth. It also enables NASA and other lunar surface technology providers to test innovations critical to achieving Artemis program goals and exploring the Moon’s surface.

The New Shepard crew capsule is using its Reaction Control System (RCS) to spin up to approximately 11 revolutions per minute. This spin rate simulates one-sixth Earth gravity at the midpoint of the crew capsule lockers. In simulated lunar gravity, customers can accelerate their learning and technology readiness for lunar payloads at much lower cost.

Previous mission (New Glenn Flight 1) | Next mission (NS-30)

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