NS-38
Blue Origin · New Shepard
Success
TBD
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Launch Details
Launch Date
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Agency
Blue OriginRocket
New Shepard
Launch Pad
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch — Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Launch Window
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Launch date history
No date changes since Orbit started tracking this launch on 27 Sep 2026.
Mission Progress
Current Stage
Booster Landing
First stage booster returns for a powered landing
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- Announced
Mission confirmed and added to the launch manifest
- Vehicle Integration
Rocket assembled and transported to the launch pad
- Pre-Launch Checks
Fuelling, systems checks, and final go/no-go polling
- Launch Window Open
Countdown active — T-0 within the launch window
- Liftoff
Main engines ignite and the vehicle clears the tower
- Max-Q
Maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle
- MECO / Stage Separation
Main engine cutoff and first stage separates
- Second Stage Ignition
Upper stage engine ignites to continue to orbit
- Orbit Insertion
Payload deployed to target orbit — primary mission success
- Booster Landing
First stage booster returns for a powered landing
Launch Provider
Blue Origin
CommercialBOBlue 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.
Founded2000
Total launches41
CountryUSA
Rocket & Vehicle
New Shepard
Launch Pad
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Lat 31.423
Lng -104.757
Launches from pad38
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