Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight Now . Blue Origin…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight Now . Blue Origin later confirmed the explosion.
Key points
- Jeff Bezos’ space company was performing a static fire test ahead of an anticipated fourth launch of the new rocket in the coming weeks, which was supposed to carry Amazon Leo…
- That means the rocket was likely fully fueled, contributing to what is one of the largest rocket explosions in U.S.
- history and the worst failure in Blue Origin’s existence.
- Blue Origin said in an X post Thursday evening that “[a]ll personnel have been accounted for,” and Bezos wrote that they were “safe.” The company didn’t say what went wrong, only…
- “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it.
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This article was independently rewritten by ManyPress editorial AI from reporting originally published by TechCrunch, BBC Business.
