New Shepard | NS-17
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-17
Seventeenth flight of New Shepard. It will carry a second NASA lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.
RSS H.G. Wells
Serial 2.0-1
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Active
Landing Time 2021-08-26T14:42:00+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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