Blue Origin New Shepard NS-9

Name: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-9
Start: 2018-07-18T15:00:00.000Z
Location: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

New Shepard

Status

Success

Date

18 JUL 2018

15:00

Launch Provider

Blue Origin

Launch Pad

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

New Shepard

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Suborbital

Stages

Livestream

Not available

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