Blue Origin New Shepard NS-18

Name: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-18
Start: 2021-10-13T14:49:00.000Z
Location: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

New Shepard

Status

Success

Date

13 OCT 2021

14:49

Launch Provider

Blue Origin

Launch Pad

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Mission Overview

NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.

Rocket

New Shepard

Mission Type

Tourism

Orbit

Suborbital

Stages

Livestream

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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