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Aug. 26, 2021, 1:35 p.m. - Aug. 26, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
Aug. 26, 2021, 1:35 p.m. - Aug. 26, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
The First Human Flight crew at a post-flight press conference after a successful flight to space and back. (July 20, 2021) Blue Origin safely launches four commercial astronauts to space and back Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard’s first human flight today with four private citizens...
Seventeenth flight of New Shepard. It will carry a second NASA lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.
Launch delayed by 24 hours
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The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
See DetailsNS3 successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its eighth flight.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.Second New Shepard capsule. It is dedicated to uncrewed flights.
Crew Capsule 2.0 DetailsBlue 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.
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Blue Origin launched a New Shepard suborbital vehicle Aug. 25 on a mission carrying research and educational payloads as the company prepares for its next crewed flight.
A month after New Shepard’s first flight carrying people into space, a science flight without crew onboard is being prepared at the program’s launch site near Van Horn, Texas. The flight, the fourth of the year for the New Shepard program,…
Blue Origin is set to launch its reusable New Shepard booster from West Texas on a suborbital flight to the edge of space Thursday on the company’s first launch since founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates rocketed to altitude of 66 miles …
Blue Origin is set to launch its reusable New Shepard booster from West Texas on a suborbital flight to the edge of space Thursday on the company’s first launch since founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates rocketed to an altitude of 66 mil…
Blue Origin will conduct its next New Shepard suborbital mission Aug. 25 with a set of research payloads, but not people, on board on the vehicle’s first flight under a revised launch license.
First flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle.
Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Tianlian is a Chinese data tracking and relay communications geostationary satellite series. The TL 2 (Tian Lian 2) satellites represent the second g…
8 satellites for a constellation of satellites developed by Orora Technologies (OroraTech) of Germany, with thermal infrared cameras that can provide…
Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office
6 weather satellites performing atmospheric measurements using GNSS Radio Occultation for a Tianjin based company. Constellation is planned to have a…
Eighth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office t…
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Last of five batches of five satellites for the French Kinéis IoT constellation designed to operate with 25 nanosatellites of 30 kg each.