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. For the test, the capsule fired its pusher escape motor and launched from a launch vehicle simulator. On 19 October 2012, Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape of a full-scale suborbital crew capsule at its West Texas launch site. One development milestone along the way became public. 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. 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. A second test flight was scheduled for December 2 which never took place.Īccording to Federal Aviation Administration records, two further flights were performed by Goddard. The test vehicle named Goddard (also known as PM1) that first flew on November 13, 2006. The Goddard launch vehicle was assembled at the Blue Origin facility in Kent, Washington, United States. Goddard made its first flight on 13 November 2006. 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. In the SVG file, hover over a point to show details. Where booster and capsule achieved different altitudes, the higher is plotted. History Timeline of SpaceShipOne, SpaceShipTwo, CSXT and New Shepard sub-orbital flights. The BE-3PM engine produces 490 kN of thrust at takeoff. The launch vehicle has a length of 15.0 m, a diameter of 3.7 m and a launch mass of 75 T. Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed the New Shepard launch vehicle 22 times with 1 partial failure deemed successful and 1 failure. The booster lands vertically on the same launchpad it took off from. The launch vehicle is designed to be fully reusable, with the capsule returning to Earth via three parachutes and a solid rocket motor. The booster rocket is powered by one BE-3PM engine, which sends the capsule to an apogee (Sub-Orbital) of 100.5 km and flies above the Kármán line, where passengers and cargo can experience a few minutes of weightlessness before the capsule returns to Earth. The capsule can be configured to house up to six passengers, cargo, or a combination of both. The New Shepard launch vehicle is a rocket that consists of a booster rocket and a crew capsule. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and landings and can carry humans and customer payloads into a sub-orbital space.
The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard who became the first American to travel into space, and was the fifth person to walk on the Moon. New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin.
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