Design and Implementation of an Instrumentation Package to Characterize Blue Origin's New Shepard Vehicle Cabin Environment

摘要

This paper describes the design and implementation of the Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor (SFEM-2) used to measure conditions inside Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital flight vehicle. The SFEM-2 was a "pathfinder" experiment for flying payloads on suborbital spacecraft and included instruments to characterize the environment provided in the capsule during the missions. The SFEM-2 was flown on New Shepard for its fifth, sixth, and eighth payload flights, designated as P5, P6, and P8 respectively. This paper provides a description of the overall project and a summary of results from the flight-testing.