The emergency stop system lowered the crew capsule from the launch vehicle at an altitude of about nine kilometers.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin unguided New Shepard space rocket malfunctioned shortly after launch and exploded, but the uncrewed capsule was successfully detached and parachuted to the desert floor.
It noted that the malfunction of the New Shepard launch vehicle, similar to the one used by Blue Origin this year to send three crews of up to six people on suborbital flights, occurred one minute and four seconds after launch and at that moment. the rocket reached its goal.
A built-in emergency stop system lowered the crew capsule from the launch vehicle at an altitude of about nine kilometers. The launch vehicle is believed to have been destroyed.
“It looks like we encountered an anomaly during today’s flight – it was unplanned and we don’t have any details yet, but our crewed capsule successfully escaped,” Blue Origin’s Senior Director of Emerging Space Markets said in a live that broadcast of the launch. on the website of the space company Erica Wagner.
The company later added that it was a payload mission with no astronauts on board, and that the capsule’s evacuation system worked as intended.
Experts suspect that the failure of the propulsion system is the cause of the malfunction.
The mission, named NS-23, carried 36 payloads from academia, research institutions and students from around the world on the ninth general flight of this particular vehicle.
Recall that NASA’s next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 lunar mission could take place on September 23 or 27, but only if the agency fixes the leak and receives critical clearance from the US Space Force.
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