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This page records New Shepard | NS-27 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITECorn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Mission
Twenty-seventh flight of New Shepard, flying without crew as a test for the newest booster.
- Launch vehicle
- New Shepard
- Mission type
- Suborbital
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- RSS Kármán Line
- Destination
- Suborbital
- Launch pad
- West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
- Provider
- Blue Origin
- Recovery
- Return to Launch Site, NS-5 has landed back on the landing pad. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
New Shepard
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.
- Height
- 15 m
- Diameter
- 3.7 m
- Stages
- 1
- Recorded launches
- 38
- First flight
- 2015-04-29
Core
NS-5
Flight 1NewLanding successful
- Recovery
- Corn Ranch, West Texas
- Landing method
- Return to Launch Site
Recorded timing
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SCHEDULED MOMENT
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Launch site & orbit
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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Mission coverage
Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-27 Webcast ↗Further reading
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