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LAUNCH SITECorn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Mission
Seventeenth flight of New Shepard. It will carry a second NASA lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.
- Launch vehicle
- New Shepard
- Mission type
- Suborbital
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- RSS H.G. Wells
- Destination
- Suborbital
- Launch pad
- West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
- Provider
- Blue Origin
- Recovery
- Return to Launch Site, NS3 successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its eighth flight. +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
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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Mission coverage
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