New Shepard

In-active Re-Usable

Blue Origin (BO)

April 29, 2015

Description

The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    15.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.7 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    ―
  • Launch Mass
    75.0 T
  • Thrust
    490.0 kN
  • Apogee (Sub-Orbital)
    100.0 km
Family
  • Name
    New Shepard
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    ―
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    New Shepard
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    ―
  • Low Earth Orbit
    ―
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    ―
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Blue Origin

Commercial
CEO: Jeff Bezos
BO 2000

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.

Previous Flights

flew on three previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-38

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NS-38 is the 17th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 38th in the New Shepard program's history.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
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New Shepard | NS-37

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NS-37 is the 16th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 37th in the New Shepard program's history.

Suborbital NS-5 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
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New Shepard | NS-36

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

NS-36 is the 15th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 36th in the New Shepard program's history.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
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