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Blue OriginLaunch SuccessfulSuborbitalNew Shepard
Launched 2020-10-13 13:37 UTCWest Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch, Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Success
Reached Suborbital
Landed
NS-3 Landed
The first stage landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas, on its 7th flight.
Blue Origin
1st
launch this year
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
306 d 19 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
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.
Launches
41
Successful
39
95%
Landings
38
of 41
Upcoming
30
scheduled
Height
15m
Diameter
3.7m
Liftoff thrust
490kN
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