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New Shepard - NS-2

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Status - Retired

The New Shepard 2 or NS2, made five successful flights in 2015 and 2016, being retired after its fifth flight in October 2016. It was the first booster which Blue Origin successfully landed and reused.

Previous Flights

NS-2 flew on five previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-6

Blue Origin | USA
Corn Ranch, USA
Oct. 5, 2016, 4:36 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The 6th flight for Blue Origin, NS-6 will test an in-flight abort scenario for the capsule.

Suborbital NS-2 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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New Shepard | NS-5

Blue Origin | USA
Corn Ranch, USA
June 19, 2016, 3:15 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Fifth flight for Blue Origin. The NS-5 mission successfully landed the core stage and tested a capsule landing with one parachute cut.

Suborbital NS5 NS-2 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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New Shepard | NS-4

Blue Origin | USA
Corn Ranch, USA
April 2, 2016, 4:18 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The fourth flight for Blue Origin. The capsule reached an apogee of 103.8 kilometers.

Suborbital NS4 NS-2 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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New Shepard | NS-3

Blue Origin | USA
Corn Ranch, USA
Jan. 22, 2016, 4 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

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

Suborbital NS3 NS-2 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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New Shepard | NS-2

Blue Origin | USA
Corn Ranch, USA
Nov. 23, 2015, 5:21 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

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

Suborbital NS-2 - Maiden Flight Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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Recent Launches

New Shepard

Success

1 week ago

NS-15

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USA

Fifteenth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. During the mission, astronaut operational exercises will be conducted in preparation for hum…

Soyuz 2.1a

Success

1 week, 5 days ago

Soyuz MS-18

31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Soyuz MS-18 begins expedition 65 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International …

Long March 4B

Success

1 week, 6 days ago

Long March 4B

Taiyuan, People's Republic of China

Falcon 9 Block 5

Success

2 weeks ago

Starlink 23

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 4C

Success

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Gaofen-12-02

Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of China

Gaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), a …