Blue Origin New Shepard NS-1

Name: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-1
Start: 2015-04-29T17:06:00.000Z
Location: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

New Shepard

Status

Success

Date

29 APR 2015

17:06

Launch Provider

Blue Origin

Launch Pad

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Mission Overview

The first flight of the New Shepard 1 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 93.5 kilometers.

Rocket

New Shepard

Mission Type

Test Flight

Orbit

Suborbital

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

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

Launch Mass

75 T

Thrust

490 kN