Blue Origin claims that all payloads on board landed safely thanks to the escape system. The capsule was carrying a suite of scientific payloads. Previous flights have ferried Bezos and celebrities like William Shatner, though this particular mission wasn’t carrying any people. The New Shepard booster crashed in the desert.īlue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is designed to take paying customers to the edge of space and back. New Shepard’s escape system activated, prompting the capsule on top to separate from the malfunctioning rocket and land under parachutes. Just over a minute after takeoff, the vehicle suffered an apparent engine failure and deviated from its flight path. 12, an uncrewed version of Blue Origin’s New Shepard took off from the company’s launch facility near Van Horn, Texas. The company said it hoped to resume New Shepard flights “soon,” and that its next flights will carry the payloads from the failed missions. The mishap, which caused the uncrewed rocket to veer off course and eject its capsule shortly after launch, was due to a structural failure of a nozzle in the vehicle’s main engine, Blue Origin said in a blog post on Friday. (Bloomberg) - Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Jeff Bezos, finally revealed what caused the September 2022 crash of its New Shepard rocket.
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