New Shepard | NS-24
Launch Successful
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Launch Window
Dec. 19, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - Dec. 19, 2023, 9:30 p.m.
Dec. 19, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - Dec. 19, 2023, 9:30 p.m.
Twenty-fourth flight of New Shepard carrying the same 36 science and research payloads and tens of thousands of postcards from Club For Future that flew on the failed NS-23 flight.
Launch Successful.
Liftoff
Hold
Hold released ~16:39 UTC
On Hold
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 DetailsNS4 has land on Corn Ranch Landing Pad after this 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.
INFO WIKI
After over a year of waiting, New Shepard has returned to flight. Following a scrubbed launch on the 18th, New Shepard cleared the tower flying the NS-24 mission on December 19th at 10:43 AM. The flight carried 33 experimental payloads, ra…
Blue Origin delayed the return to flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle by one day as the company’s founerd says he will push the company to move more quickly on its various projects.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is returned to flight on Dec. 19, 2023, from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas.
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Taking some science and some postcards for a ride.
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