Launches / New Shepard

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NS-35

New Shepard, flown by Blue Origin

New Shepard lifting off with the NS-35 mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was Blue Origin's 8th launch of 2025, and its 36th in all.

It was the seventh launch from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch in 2025.

Launched
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, 1:00 p.m. UTC
Window
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, 12:30 to 8:30 p.m. UTC
Launch site
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Rocket
New Shepard
Operator
Blue Origin

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The mission

NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.

Type
Suborbital
Destination
Suborbital

The rocket

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.

Height
15 m
Built by
Blue Origin
First flew
April 29, 2015
Diameter
3.7 m
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Mass at liftoff
75 t
Thrust at liftoff
490 kN
Stages
1

38 flights, 37 of them successful. 36 boosters brought back from 38 attempts.

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The operator

Blue Origin

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.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
USA
Founded
2000
Run by
Jeff Bezos, CEO

41 launches so far, 39 of them successful.

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The launch site

It went up from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch at Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA.

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