Blue Origin has noted the failure mechanism which doomed the unmanned flight New Shepard NS-23 suborbital spacecraft. After its lift off at 1401 GMT on 12 September 2022 at T+ 1 minute 5 seconds the New Shepard booster (NS Propulsion Module Tail 3) suffered an...
Iran’s Zoljanah 1 (Zuljanah 1) rocket launched for a second time on a suborbital flight on 26 June 2022. The first suborbital launch took place successfully on 15 January 2021. Details are sketchy but it is thought that this launch also took place from Shahroud...
Blue Origin successfully launched its suborbital vehicle New Shepard NS-21 from Texas, USA at 1325 GMT on 4 June 2022. The crewed vehicle carried six people – actually participants rather than a crew – on its autonomous mission to suborbital space and...
On 31 March a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket and capsule on flight NS-20 launched from the Earth (“Launch Site One” in West Texas) at 1358 GMT on 31 March. It carried six space travellers. All six (five fare paying) humans were safely recovered to Earth...
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) aka North Korea, announced the nation had conducted the second of two suborbital flights to test out technology for a new “reconnaissance satellite.” The announcement by DPRK is thought to refer to...
A suborbital/sounding rocket launch of the Japanese SS-520 (Two Stage Suborbital) rocket was launched from the Svalbard Rocket Range in Norway at 1009 GMT on 4 November 2021. It flew to an altitude of 956 km before re-entering and falling into the ocean downrange,...
