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
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 0 kg
- GTO capacity
- 0 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
38
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
97.4%
37 of 38
Current success streak
15
Landings
36
38 attempts · 0 droneship / 36 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
59.0 d
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Boosters that flew this rocket
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 flights0/1 landings
Serial-tracked stages only — predominantly SpaceX.
Launches
- New Shepard | NS-38 — Success
- New Shepard | NS-37 — Success
- New Shepard | NS-36 — Success
- New Shepard | NS-35 — Success
- New Shepard | NS-34 — Success