Blue Origin New Shepard NS-16

Name: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-16
Start: 2021-07-20T13:12:00.000Z
Location: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

New Shepard

Status

Success

Date

20 JUL 2021

13:12

Launch Provider

Blue Origin

Launch Pad

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Mission Overview

First crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

Rocket

New Shepard

Mission Type

Tourism

Orbit

Suborbital

Stages

Livestream

watch on source

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