Blue Origin
Test flights

Blue Origin

Section Title: Test flights
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Date	Vehicle	Notes

29 April 2015	New Shepard 1	Successful atmospheric flight to altitude 93.5 km (307,000 ft), capsule recovered, booster crashed on landing

23 November 2015	New Shepard 2	Successful Sub-orbital spaceflight and landing

22 January 2016	New Shepard 2	Successful sub-orbital flight and landing of a reused booster

2 April 2016	New Shepard 2	Successful sub-orbital flight and landing of a reused booster

19 June 2016	New Shepard 2	Successful sub-orbital flight and landing of a reused booster: The fourth launch and landing of the same rocket. Blue Origin published a live webcast of the takeoff and landing.

5 October 2016	New Shepard 2	Successful sub-orbital flight and landing of a reused booster: The fifth and final launch and landing of the same rocket (NS2).

12 December 2017	New Shepard 3	Successful sub-orbital flight and landing. The first launch of NS3 and new Crew Capsule 2.0.

29 April 2018	New Shepard 3	Sub-orbital flight and landing, second launch of NS3. First flight with a commercial cargo payload of suborbital experiments, and first flight to be licensed by the FAA with a standard commercial launch license rather than under an experimental permit.

18 July 2018	New Shepard 3	Ninth flight overall, and third of NS3, included several customer payloads. Before reaching the apogee, the capsule engaged an abort sequence to test its stabilization modules, after which it reached 120 kilometres (393,000 ft).

22 January 2019	New Shepard 3	Tenth flight overall, and fourth of NS3, included several customer payloads.

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The New Shepard 1 vehicle flew at an altitude of 93.5 km (307,000 ft).

final_sentence: The New Shepard 1 vehicle flew at an altitude of 93.5 km (307,000 ft).