Twenty-seventh flight of New Shepard,flying unmanned as a test for the newest booster.
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.
See DetailsNS-5 has landed back on the landing pad.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch, West Texas.Second human rated Crew Capsule for New Shepard.
Crew Capsule 2.0 DetailsBlue 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.
INFO WIKIThis week will see a fourth flight of the Japanese H3 rocket carrying a communications satellite for the Japanese military and two launches from China. Blue Origin will attempt to test its second human-rated New Shepard capsule, which has …
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