New Shepard | NS-9
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
July 18, 2018, 3 p.m. - July 18, 2018, 3 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
July 18, 2018, 3 p.m. - July 18, 2018, 3 p.m.
The third commercial flight for Blue Origin. NS-9 carried various payloads on a sub-orbital flight. It also tested the capsule escape rockets at high altitude.
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 third time.
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 Details
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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