New Shepard | NS-9

New Shepard | NS-9

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.

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NS-9

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.

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RSS H.G. Wells


Serial 2.0-1

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Active

Landing Time 2018-07-18T15:11:00+0000


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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


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Serial NS-3

Status destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 9


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success Yes

Type RTLS

Location CR


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