New Shepard
New Shepard familyBlue OriginRetiredReusable
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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 490 kN
- Height
- 15 m
- Diameter
- 3.7 m
- Launch mass
- 75 t
- Stages
- 1
- LEO capacity
- 0 kg
- GTO capacity
- 0 kg
Specifications from Launch Library. Figures the operator has not published are omitted.
Flight record
38flightswith a definitive outcome
97.4%success rate37 of 38
15success streakcurrent
36landings38 attempts · 0 droneship · 36 RTLS
59.0 dfastest turnaroundbetween consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record, the same basis as the stats page.
Boosters
Boosters by flights
- NS-417 flights17/17 landings
- NS-39 flights8/9 landings
- NS-56 flights6/6 landings
- NS-25 flights5/5 landings
- NS-11 flight0/1 landings
Serial-tracked stages only — predominantly SpaceX.