The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be launching an investigation into Blue Origin’s uncrewed launch that erupted into a fireball during flight. While no injuries have been reported from the launch on Monday, the aviation authority will need to sign off before the Jeff Bezos company’s New Shepard rocket can return to flight. Both the FAA and Blue Origin pointed out that this was a payload-only mission and carried no astronauts onboard.
“Before the New Shepard vehicle can return to flight, the FAA will determine whether any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap affected public safety,” the FAA said in a statement on the same day as the launch. Just moments after the Blue Origin rocket carrying a payload of scientific experiments and other cargo to the edge of space was launched, the main booster exploded.
The capsule was then safely brought back to Earth via a launch abort system. “We’re responding to an issue this morning at our Launch Site One location in West Texas,” Blue Origin tweeted. “The capsule escape system functioned as designed. More information to come as it is available,” the company said after the launch.
The New Shepard rocket is the same kind of launch vehicle and spacecraft that carried Blue Origin founder and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos to the edge of space in July 2021 and has also safely carried many other celebrities and space tourists to the edge of space and back. At about a minute and four seconds into the flight, the New Shepard booster was caught in flames and within moments flight abort rockets separated the capsule, helping it jettison back to Earth safely.
P.S.: Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, the company is led by CEO Bob Smith and aims to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through reusable launch vehicles. Rob Meyerson led Blue Origin from 2003 to 2017 and served as its first president. Blue Origin is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. The company's name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.
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