New Shepard | NS-7
Launch Successful
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Dec. 12, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Dec. 12, 2017, 4:59 p.m. - Dec. 12, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Dec. 12, 2017, 4:59 p.m. - Dec. 12, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
NS-7 is Blue Origins first commercial flight. The payloads included 12 experiments conducted in 3 minutes of microgravity dedicated to medical and earth science.
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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The NS-3 core stage successfully landed for the first time.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.
This spacecraft was flown on NS-3 carrying cargo and a test dummy.
Crew Capsule 2.0 Details
Date of
Birth: Dec. 12, 2017
Age: 4
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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