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th the launch rocket is powered by one be 3pm engine which sends the capsule above the kármán line where passengers and cargo can experience a few minutes of weightlessness before the capsule returns to earth the launch vehicle is designed to be fully reusable with the capsule returning to earth via three parachutes and a solid rocket motor the rocket lands vertically on a landing pad 3 2 km north of the launch pad the company has successfully launched and landed the new shepard launch vehicle 36 times with 1 partial failure deemed successful 1 and 1 failure the launch vehicle has a length of 19 2 meters 63 ft a diameter of 3 8 meters 12 ft and a launch mass of 35 000 kilograms 77 000 lb the be 3pm engine produces 490 kilonewtons 110 000 lb f of thrust at liftoff 2 on january 30 2026 blue origin announced further new shepard launches would be paused for at least two years to allow the company to shift resources to their blue moon series of landers in support of the artemis program 3 history edit timeline of space ship one space ship two csxt and new shepard sub orbital flights where booster and capsule achieved different altitudes the higher is plotted in the svg file hover over a point to show details the first development vehicle of the new shepard development program was a sub scale demonstration vehicle named goddard that was built in 2006 following earlier engine development efforts by blue origin goddard was assembled at the blue origin facility in kent washington united states and made its first flight on november 13 2006 4 a second test flight was scheduled for december 2 but never took place citation needed according to federal aviation administration faa records two further flights were performed by goddard blue engine 1 or be 1 was the first rocket engine developed by blue origin and was used in the company s goddard development vehicle on the path to developing the new shepard launch vehicle a crew capsule was also needed and design was begun on a space capsule in the early 2000s one development milestone along the way became public on october 19 2012 blue origin conducted a successful pad escape of a full scale suborbital crew capsule at its west texas launch site for the test the capsule fired its pusher escape motor and launched from a launch vehicle simulator the crew capsule traveled to an altitude of 703 m 2 307 ft under active thrust vector control before descending safely by parachute to a soft landing 500 m 1 630 ft downrange 5 6 in april 2015 blue origin announced that they had completed acceptance testing of the be 3pm engine that would power the new shepard launch vehicle the company also announced that they intended to begin flight testing of the new shepard later in 2015 with initial flights occurring as frequently as monthly with a series of dozens of flights over the extent of the sub orbital test program taking a couple of years to complete 7 the same month the faa announced that the regulatory paperwork for the test program had already been filed and approved and test flights were expected to begin before mid may 2015 8 by february 2016 three new shepard vehicles had been built the first was lost in a test in april 2015 the second had flown twice see below and the third was completing manufacture at the blue origin factory in kent washington united states in 2016 the blue origin team were awarded the collier trophy for demonstrating rocket reusability with the new shepard human spaceflight vehicle 9 on july 20 2021 the company successfully completed its first crewed mission blue origin ns 16 into space using its new shepard launch vehicle carrying passengers jeff bezos his brother mark bezos wally funk and oliver daemen the flight was approximately 10 minutes and crossed the kármán line new shepard performed six crewed flights between july 2021 and august 2022 taking a mix of sponsored celebrities such as wally funk william shatner as well as paying customers new shepard ticket sales brought in 50 million through june 2022 the second and third crewed missions of new shepard took place in october and december 2021 the fourth crewed flight happened in march 2022 on june 4 2022 new shepard completed its fifth crewed mission launch and the sixth crewed flight took place on august 4 2022 in september 2022 an uncrewed mission of the new shepard had an anomaly due to a failure of the be 3pm main engine the launch escape system triggered and the capsule landed safely the remaining new shepard launch vehicles were grounded pending an faa investigation into the incident after a six month investigation blue origin pinpointed the cause of the anomaly as a thermal structure failure of the be 3pm engine nozzle caused a thrust misalignment that triggered the capsule s emergency escape system to activate blue origin said in its press release that new shepard flights would resume as soon as possible as of june 2022 the company had generated more than 100m from the new shepard space tourism program 10 the return to flight mission happened on december 19 2023 on february 4 2025 an uncrewed new shepard rocket was launched the ns 29 mission was intended to launch about 30 moon related technologies 11 on april 14 2025 blue origin completed a successful sub orbital crewed mission of six women aboard its blue origin ns 31 as part of the new shepard program passengers included gayle king katy perry amanda nguyen aisha bowe lauren sanchez and kerianne flynn the flight reached a peak altitude of 106 km and lasted 10 minutes and 21 seconds 12 on january 30 2026 blue origin announced further new shepard launches would be paused for at least two years to allow the company to shift resources to their blue moon series of landers in support of the artemis program 13 new shepard vehicles edit the new shepard crew capsule after a successful sub orbital space flight new shepard propulsion modules edit as of 2024 update there have been five propulsion modules built they are ns1 ns2 ns3 ns4 and ns5 at the time of the program being paused in 2026 there were four new propulsion modules under construction ns6 ns7 ns8 and ns9 three of which were expected to fly in 2026 14 15 new shepard 1 edit the first flight of the full scale new shepard vehicle was ns1 16 also called tail 1 17 and was conducted on april 29 2015 during which an altitude of 93 5 km 58 1 mi was attained while the test flight itself was deemed a success and the capsule was successfully recovered via parachute landing the rocket crash landed and was not recovered due to a failure of hydraulic pressure in the vehicle control system during descent 18 19 the capsule was called rss jules verne 20 new shepard 2 edit the new shepard 2 ns2 also called tail 2 17 flight test article propulsion module made five successful flights in 2015 and 2016 being retired after its fifth flight in october 2016 new shepard 3 edit new shepard 3 ns3 also called tail 3 17 along with capsule rss h g wells 21 was modified for increased reusability and improved thermal protection it included a redesigned propulsion module and the inclusion of new access panels for more rapid servicing and improved thermal protection ns3 was the third propulsion module built it was completed and shipped to the launch site by september 2017 22 although parts of it had been built as early as march 2016 16 flight tests began in 2017 and continued into 2019 23 the new crew capsule 2 0 featuring windows was integrated to the ns3 22 ns3 was only ever used to fly cargo no passengers were carried as was originally planned for ns3 24 its initial flight test occurred on december 12 2017 25 this was the first flight flown under the regulatory regime of a launch license granted by the faa previous test flights had flown under an experimental permit which did not allow blue origin to carry cargo for which it was paid for commercially this made the flight of ns3 the first revenue flight for payloads and it carried 12 experiments on the flight as well as a test dummy given the moniker mannequin skywalker 26 since the maiden flight blue origin has been making updates to the vehicle intended primarily to improve operability rather than performance or reliability those upgrades took longer than expected leading to a several month gap in test flights 23 the second test flight took place on april 29 2018 27 the 10th overall new shepard flight and the fourth ns3 flight had originally been planned for december 2018 but was delayed due to ground infrastructure issues following a diagnostics of the initial issue blue origin rescheduled the launch for early 2019 after discovering additional systems that needed repairs as well 28 the flight launched on january 23 2019 and successfully flew to space with a maximum altitude of 106 9 km 66 4 mi 29 it has been used to test splice safe and precise landing integrated capabilities evolution a nasa lunar landing technology demonstration on two separate flights in october 2020 ns 13 and august 2021 ns 17 30 new shepard 3 rocket was destroyed during the ns 23 mission once it impacted the ground on september 12 2022 after a rocket engine anomaly led to the activation of the in flight abort system the capsule made a successful landing under parachutes 31 this was the ninth flight of ns3 and the flight was not carrying any people on board 32 33 new shepard 4 edit new shepard 4 ns4 also called tail 4 17 which flies with capsule rss first step was the fourth propulsion module to be built and the first to carry human passengers bezos himself was a passenger 34 the vehicle was manufactured in 2018 and moved to the blue origin west texas launch facility in december 2019 35 the uncrewed maiden launch of ns4 occurred on january 14 2021 36 ns4 was successfully launched on july 20 2021 with four passengers jeff bezos was aboard this maiden crewed flight on october 13 2021 ns4 successfully launched and landed carrying four passengers including notable passenger william shatner 37 on december 11 2021 blue origin ns 19 successfully launched into space this was the first time new shepard carried six passengers the full design passenger complement in october 2024 national air and space museum announced that blue origin will donate ns4 in future to be displayed in the museum 38 new shepard 5 edit new shepard 5 ns5 also called tail 5 which flies with capsule rss kármán line is blue origin s second crew rated propulsion module manufactured to meet growing demand for new shepard flights it debuted on the ns 27 uncrewed flight which flew on october 23 2024 following aborted launch attempts on october 7 2024 and october 13 2024 39 40 new shepard capsules edit as of 2025 update four new shepard capsules have been constructed they are rss jules verne rss h g wells rss first step and rss kármán line rss h g wells was retired from service after its twelfth flight at the time of the program being paused in 2026 there were two new unnamed capsules under construction 41 boosters destroyed retired and active edit s n launches launch date utc 42 turnaround time mission launch landing status ns1 1 29 april 2015 n a blue origin ns 1 success failure destroyed ns2 5 23 november 2015 n a blue origin ns 2 success success retired 22 january 2016 60 days blue origin ns 3 success success 2 april 2016 71 days blue origin ns 4 success success 19 june 2016 78 days blue origin ns 5 success success 5 october 2016 108 days blue origin ns 6 success success ns3 9 12 december 2017 n a blue origin ns 7 success success destroyed 29 april 2018 138 days blue origin ns 8 success success 18 july 2018 80 days blue origin ns 9 success success 23 january 2019 189 days blue origin ns 10 success success 2 may 2019 99 days blue origin ns 11 success success 11 december 2019 223 days blue origin ns 12 success success 13 october 2020 307 days blue origin ns 13 success success 26 august 2021 317 days blue origin ns 17 success success 12 september 2022 382 days blue origin ns 23 failure failure ns4 17 14 january 2021 n a blue origin ns 14 success success active 14 april 2021 90 days blue origin ns 15 success success 20 july 2021 97 days blue origin ns 16 success success 13 october 2021 85 days blue origin ns 18 success success 11 december 2021 59 days blue origin ns 19 success success 31 march 2022 110 days blue origin ns 20 success success 4 june 2022 65 days blue origin ns 21 success success 4 august 2022 61 days blue origin ns 22 success success 19 december 2023 502 days blue origin ns 24 success success 19 may 2024 152 days blue origin ns 25 success success 29 august 2024 102 days blue origin ns 26 success success 22 november 2024 85 days blue origin ns 28 success success 25 february 2025 95 days blue origin ns 30 success success 31 may 2025 95 days blue origin ns 32 success success 3 august 2025 64 days blue origin ns 34 success success 8 october 2025 66 days blue origin ns 36 success success 22 january 2026 106 days blue origin ns 38 success success ns5 6 23 october 2024 n a blue origin ns 27 success success active 4 february 2025 104 days blue origin ns 29 success success 14 april 2025 69 days blue origin ns 31 success success 29 june 2025 76 days blue origin ns 33 success success 18 september 2025 81 days blue origin ns 35 success success 20 december 2025 93 days blue origin ns 37 success success flight statistics edit launch payload edit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2015 2020 2025 uncrewed crewed capsule used edit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2015 2020 2025 rss jules verne rss h g wells rss first step rss kármán line launch outcomes edit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2015 2020 2025 failure partial failure success scheduled landing outcomes edit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2015 2020 2025 failure success flight list edit launch no date vehicle apogee passengers outcome notes 0 october 19 2012 n a rss jules verne 0 7 km 0 4369 mi n a success pad abort test of the new shepard capsule 1 april 29 2015 ns1 rss jules verne 93 5 km 58 1 mi n a partial success capsule recovered rocket crashed on landing blue origin deemed mission successful 43 2 november 23 2015 17 21 ns2 1 rss jules verne 100 5 km 62 5 mi 44 n a success sub orbital spaceflight and landing 45 3 january 22 2016 ns2 2 rss jules verne 101 7 km 63 2 mi 46 n a success sub orbital spaceflight and landing of a reused rocket 47 4 april 2 2016 15 18 ns2 3 rss jules verne 103 4 km 64 2 mi 48 n a success sub orbital spaceflight and landing of a reused rocket 49 5 june 19 2016 14 36 ns2 4 rss jules verne 101 0 km 62 8 mi 50 n a success sub orbital spaceflight and landing of a reused rocket the fourth launch and landing of the same rocket blue origin published a live webcast of the takeoff and landing 50 6 october 5 2016 15 36 ns2 5 rss jules verne rocket 93 7 km 58 2 mi capsule 7 1 km 4 4 mi 51 n a success sub orbital spaceflight and landing of a reused rocket successful test of the in flight abort system the fifth and final launch and landing of the same rocket ns2 52 7 december 12 2017 16 59 ns3 1 rss h g wells rocket 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