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Launch. Land. Repeat.

New Shepard had a wholly successful mission on December 11, 2019. This mission was another...

NS-3

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Test Flight

Suborbital West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA NS3
NS-2 - Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

The third test flight of the New Shepard vehicle. It is the first re-use for Blue Origin.

New Shepard

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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.

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Specifications

Stages
1
Length
15.0 m
Diameter
3.7 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
75.0 T
Thrust
490.0 kN

Family

Name
New Shepard
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Full Name
New Shepard

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
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Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info

NS-2

Status: Retired

Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 23, 2015
Last Flight: October 5, 2016

Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5

Previous NS-2 Flights

Landing Information

The NS-2 Booster successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad.

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

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CEO: Jeff Bezos Founded: 2000 Successes: 37 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

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