{"id":24668,"date":"2024-07-02T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24668"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:41:49","slug":"new-shepard-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-shepard-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shepard Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About New Shepard Spacecraft:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>suborbital space travel vehicle<\/strong>, offering a unique experience for both scientific research and space tourism.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>named after Alan Shepard,<\/strong> the first American in space, New Shepard is a fully reusable rocket system designed for human spaceflight.<\/li>\n<li>It consists of two <strong>main components<\/strong>: a <strong>reusable booster<\/strong> and a <strong>pressurized crew capsule<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>capsule can accommodate six passengers<\/strong>, providing each with a window seat to witness breathtaking views of Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Among its notable features are the largest windows ever flown in space, offering an unparalleled visual experience for astronauts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New Shepard&#8217;s 11-minute journey takes passengers <strong>beyond the Karman line<\/strong>. During the flight, passengers experience several <strong>minutes of weightlessness<\/strong> before making a controlled descent back to Earth aided by parachutes.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to its space tourism potential, New Shepard serves as a valuable <strong>platform for scientific research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the Karman line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Located <strong>at 100 km<\/strong> (62 miles) above sea level, it is an <strong>imaginary line<\/strong> that demarcates the earth\u2019s atmosphere from space.<\/li>\n<li>It was established in the 1960s by a record-keeping body called <strong>the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was named after aerospace pioneer Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n.<\/li>\n<li>Though <strong>not all scientists and spacefarers accept<\/strong> it (for example, the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, and the U.S. military place the line between outer space and the atmosphere at 80 km (50 miles) above the Earth\u2019s surface) , a majority of countries and space organisations recognise this boundary between earth sky and space.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Anything traveling <strong>above the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line needs a propulsion system<\/strong> that doesn\u2019t rely on lift generated by Earth\u2019s atmosphere\u2014the air is simply too thin that high up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a suborbital spaceflight?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to a height of around 100km from the Earth&#8217;s surface, and is done at a lower altitude than an orbital flight, which reaches at least a low-Earth orbit \u2014 between around 200km to 2,000km from Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/meet-new-shepard-blue-origins-spacecraft-set-to-take-indians-to-space-2560597-2024-07-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meet New Shepard: Blue Origin&#8217;s spacecraft set to take Indians to space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Shepard Spacecraft  is a suborbital space travel vehicle, offering a unique experience for both scientific research and space tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}