The FAA will assess if "any system, method, or practice linked to the disaster compromised public safety" before New Shepard can resume launching science missions or human clients. The launch disaster will be looked at by the Federal Aviation Administration, which is in charge of overseeing commercial space operation safety. More information to come as it is available.- Blue Origin SeptemFAA to Examine Incident The capsule escape system functioned as designed. This was a payload mission with no astronauts on board. We’re responding to an issue this morning at our Launch Site One location in West Texas. "Booster failure on today's uncrewed flight," Blue Origin tweeted. Later, Blue Origin acknowledged the booster's failure to launch on Monday. Blue Origin is scheduled to launch the New Shepard NS-18 mission to space with passengers including actor William Shatner on October 13 from West Texas, near Van Horn.ĪLSO READ: NASA Tracks 5 New Asteroid Flybys This Week, How Far Are These From Earth? FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Ī sign is displayed at an entrance to Blue Origin's Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, Texas on October 11, 2021. Then three main parachutes descended the spacecraft to a comparatively soft crash, creating a dust cloud in the west Texas desert. About a minute after the abort started, three small drogue parachutes were released to steady and decelerate the capsule. The journey to Earth seemed to go normally after that. The capsule took off as planned because the abort mechanism had been tested during a test flight in 2018 nevertheless, the spacecraft did not appear to be as stable atop the motor and wobbled back and forth before burning out. However, one minute and four seconds later, the BE-3 exhaust plume slightly changed color, and an instant later, a huge explosion of flame erupted from the rocket's base.ĬBS News said the New Shepard abort motor erupted in a split second, immediately propelling the capsule away from the damaged rocket. When the rocket roared away early in the flight, everything seemed normal. EDT when the single-stage New Shepard booster's hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine roared to life, ramped up to maximum thrust, and launched the spacecraft into orbit from Blue Origin's west Texas launch pad.
How Blue Origin New Shepard Experienced Flight Anomaly Since Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos personally traveled on the first crewed trip last year, the firm he controls has flown multiple human missions and employs the New Shepard system to transport paying passengers.
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There were only research experiments on board in a series of suborbital flights to the edge of space and back, wrote The Washington Post. After launch on Monday morning, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket experienced a significant issue that required the emergency abort mechanism to eject the capsule away from the booster.
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