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NS-2


Flights 5

Successful Landings 5

Status Retired

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 5


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.

NS-3


Flights 9

Successful Landings 8

Status Destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 9


New Shepard vehicle #3 was the third flight vehicle of the New Shepard suborbital rocket. It suffered an anomaly during its ninth flight.

NS-4


Flights 11

Successful Landings 11

Status Active

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 11


New Shepard vehicle #4 is the fourth flight vehicle of the New Shepard suborbital rocket. It was used for Blue Origin's first crewed launches.

NS-5


Flights 1

Successful Landings 1

Status Active

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 1


5th New Shepard booster.

SARGE 1


Flights 4

Successful Landings 3

Status Destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 4


Sarge 1 is the first SARGE reusable sounding rocket.

SN1


Flights 0

Successful Landings 0

Status Destroyed

Flight Proven No

Attempted Landings 0


SN1 was destroyed when undergoing pressurization.

SN10


Flights 1

Successful Landings 0

Status Destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 1


SN10 is a Starship Prototype similar in design to SN9. SN10 was destroyed during an explosion on the pad after landing.

SN11


Flights 1

Successful Landings 0

Status Destroyed

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 1


SN11 is a Starship Prototype similar in design to SN10 and SN9. It got destroyed during its first flight to an altitude of 10 km.

SN15


Flights 1

Successful Landings 1

Status Retired

Flight Proven Yes

Attempted Landings 1


Next Starship prototype built after SN11. It features hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics, software and engine. First Starship prototype to successfully land after a high altitude flight.

SN16


Flights 0

Successful Landings 0

Status Scrapped

Flight Proven No

Attempted Landings 0


Last suborbital Starship prototype built after SN15, to which it is similar in design. SN16 was later scrapped as SpaceX gathered all data necessary through SN9-15 and shifted focus to the Orbital Flight Test.

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