Why Sub-Orbital?

Sub-Orbital spaceflight is cheaper and more frequent!

Blue Origin’s New Shepard is now providing students the opportunity to fly their designed experiment payloads on commercial suborbital spaceflights. Blue Origin provides frequent and reliable suborbital flights for both student and researchers experiments. Their rocket, New Shepard is reusable. This means you can fly a payload for a one-forth of the cost of an orbital flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

Your student’s payload will experience about 3 minutes of micro-gravity (weightlessness) during which time the experiments can take place.

New Shepard launches from Blue Origin’s facilities in West Texas.

Why Suborbital

Compared to orbital space flights, suborbital missions offer:

1. Greater access to space with more frequent flights in a safe, reliable, reusable, and cost efficient environment

2. Convenient development from idea to flight in a single school year

3. Larger format payloads for about 1/4 the price of ISS opportunities (4x4x8 inch units).