🇺🇸Blue Origin Corn Ranch
Van Horn, Texas, United States
Country
🇺🇸 United States
Region
North America
Established
2005
Launches / Year
3-6
Coordinates
31.4000° N, 104.8000° W
About
Blue Origin's Launch Site One, commonly known as Corn Ranch, is a privately owned suborbital launch facility in West Texas. It serves as the launch and landing site for Blue Origin's New Shepard reusable suborbital vehicle, which has carried both research payloads and space tourists above the Karman line.
Key Features
Private launch facility on Jeff Bezos's 165,000-acre ranch
Launch and landing site for New Shepard reusable suborbital vehicle
Vertical takeoff and landing operations for booster recovery
Supports both crewed space tourism and uncrewed research flights
Remote West Texas location provides isolation for test operations
Rockets That Launch Here
Companies Operating Here
Orbit Types
Notable Launches
New Shepard NS-15 (2021) — Final uncrewed rehearsal flight
NS-16 (2021) — Jeff Bezos's first crewed flight with Wally Funk
NS-19 (2021) — Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley fly to space
NS-22 (2022) — Sixth crewed New Shepard mission
Multiple uncrewed New Shepard research missions for NASA