NS-9

Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Earth Science

Suborbital West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA NS9
NS-3 - Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

The third commercial flight for Blue Origin. NS-9 carried various payloads on a sub-orbital flight. It also tested the capsule escape rockets at high altitude.

New Shepard

Family:
Configuration:

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.

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Specifications

Stages
1
Length
15.0 m
Diameter
3.7 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
75.0 T
Thrust
490.0 kN

Family

Name
New Shepard
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Variant
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Alias
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Full Name
New Shepard

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
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Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Booster Info

NS-3

Status: Destroyed

Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: December 12, 2017
Last Flight: September 12, 2022

Flights: 9
Landings Attempted: 9
Landings Successful: 8

Previous NS-3 Flights

Landing Information

The NS-3 core stage successfully landed for the third time.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.

RSS H.G. Wells

Active Human Rated Unmanned Crew Capacity: 6

Destination: Suborbital

Serial Number: 2.0-1

Second New Shepard capsule. It is dedicated to uncrewed flights.

Crew Capsule 2.0 Details

Blue Origin

(BO)

CEO: Jeff Bezos Founded: 2000 Successes: 37 Failures: 1 Pending: 5

Agency Type:

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.

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Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

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