New Shepard | NS-13
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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Blue Origin
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.
NS-13
This will be the 13th New Shepard mission and the 7th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle (a record), demonstrating its operational reusability. New Shepard will fly 12 commercial payloads to space and back on this mission, including the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing Sensor Demonstration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate under a Tipping Point partnership. This is the first payload to fly mounted on the exterior of a New Shepard booster rather than inside the capsule, opening the door to a wide range of future high-altitude sensing, sampling, and exposure payloads.
RSS H.G. Wells
Serial 2.0-1
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Active
Landing Time 2020-10-13T13:48:00+0000
New Shepard
Height 15.00 Meters
Max Stages 1
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 490 kN
Diameter 3.70 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 75 Tonnes
Launch Success 27
Consecutive Success 5
Maiden Flight 2015-04-29
Launch Failures 1
Core
Serial NS-3
Status destroyed
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 9
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location CR
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