NS-2

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
NS-2 - Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

The first flight of the New Shepard 2 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 100.5 kilometers.

New Shepard

Family:
Configuration:

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.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    15.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.7 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    75.0 T
  • Thrust
    490.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    New Shepard
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    New Shepard
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


NS-2

Status: Retired


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: November 23, 2015
Last Flight: October 5, 2016
Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5

Landing Information

The New Shepard 2 booster successfully landed for the first time at Corn Ranch.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.

RSS Jules Verne


In-active Cargo Unmanned
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: 1

First Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule.

Crew Capsule 1 Details

Blue Origin

Blue Origin

(BO)

CEO: Jeff Bezos Founded: 2000 Successes: 32 Failures: 1 Pending: 5

Agency Type:

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.

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Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch


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