NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Suborbital
Success

Mission 1

Launch Time
Wed Apr 29, 2015 15:00 UTC

First flight of New Shepard and Blue Origin.

Rocket

New Shepard
Image Credit: Blue Origin
Blue Origin
Status: Active
Liftoff Thrust: 490 kN
Payload to LEO: 0 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 18.0 m

Vehicles

North Landing Pad

NS1

Flight #1
1st New Shepard recovery attempt
1st failed New Shepard recovery

Mission Details

Mission 1

The first flight of the full-scale New Shepard vehicle, Mission 1, was conducted on 29 April 2015 during which an altitude of 93.5 km (307,000 ft) was attained. While the test flight itself was deemed a success, and the capsule was successfully recovered via parachute landing, the booster stage crashed on landing and was not recovered due to a failure of hydraulic pressure in the vehicle control system during the descent.

Suborbital

Location

Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA

Stats

Blue Origin

1st mission
2nd mission of 2015
1st successful mission

New Shepard

1st mission
1st mission of 2015
1st successful mission