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NS-8

New Shepard

Blue Origin

Launch Status
Success

Mission

NS-8

Type: Earth Science

NS-8 is Blue Origin’s second commercial flight. It carried payloads from various customers on a sub-orbital launch for 3 minutes of microgravity.

Trajectory

The trajectory is unavailable. Check back for updates.

Location

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch

Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

23 rockets have launched from Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA.

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

Landing

The NS-3 core stage successfully landed for the second time.

Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas – CR

New Shepard landing site.

Return to Launch Site – RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

Agency

Blue Origin – BO

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: BO
  • Administration: CEO: Jeff Bezos
  • Founded: 2000
  • Launchers: New Shepard | New Glenn
  • Country: USA

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 technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

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