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NS-17

New ShepardBlue OriginWest Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
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New Shepard

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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 suborbi...

Height15 m
LEO Payload0 kg
Launches45
Successes39

Provider

Blue Origin

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USA • Founded 2000

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing t...

Mission Brief

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.

PayloadNS-17
OrbitSuborbital
CustomerBlue Origin
Stages1
PadWest Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch, Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

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Launch Site

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch, Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

LAUNCH SITE
31.423°N, 104.757°W

Schedule History

No delays or schedule changes recorded.