Launch Vehicle
New Shepard
retiredReusable
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 15 m
- Diameter
- 3.7 m
- Mass
- 75,000 kg
- Stages
- 1
- Thrust
- 490 kN
- Payload to LEO
- 0
- Payload to GTO
- 0
- First flight
- 2015-04-29
- Total launches
- 38
- Success / Fail
- 37 / 1
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.
Propulsion
First stage
BE-3490 kN
LH2 / LOX · combustion tap-off
Blue Originsince 2015
Payloads it launched
8 loaded
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