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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
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.

Payloads it launched · 8

MR-2
LEO
MR-1
LEO
2024-153B
LEO
2024-153F
LEO
2024-153E
LEO
2024-153D
LEO
2024-153C
LEO
2024-153A
LEO

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