Blue Origin New Shepard NS-17

Name: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-17
Start: 2021-08-26T14:31:00.000Z
Location: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

New Shepard

Status

Success

Date

26 AUG 2021

14:31

Launch Provider

Blue Origin

Launch Pad

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

New Shepard

Mission Type

Suborbital

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