Alain Fernandez

French - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

International real estate developer and investor

Spaceflight Record

Alain Fernandez flew on one previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-38

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Jan. 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-38 is the 17th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 38th in the New Shepard program's history.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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CEO: Jeff Bezos

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Recent Launches

Electron

Success

5 hours, 10 minutes ago

Viva La StriX (StriX Launch 9)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Falcon 9

Success

1 day, 4 hours ago

Starlink Group 10-31

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 11 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-42

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Vega-C

Success

3 days, 10 hours ago

Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield …

Long March 8

Success

5 days ago

SpaceSail Polar Group #9

Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

18 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with…