Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explosion: Major Setback for Jeff Bezos’ Space Venture Ahead of NASA Mission

The top of Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket exploded during stress tests, according to Bloomberg. This is another obstacle for Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ space venture. The rocket must be mission ready. NASA scheduled for October.

While one part of the New Glenn rocket exploded, another exploded. It crumbles like a soda can when transported from a humid hangar to an air-conditioned area. The incident occurred due to failure to install a valve to release pressure.

Blue Origin races against time (and crashes) to prepare a rocket for a NASA mission

The hardware part of the rocket is ready, a Blue Origin spokesperson told Bloomberg. Now, the company is working on collecting parts and integrating the rocket engine to make it ready for launch. NASA Escapade Mission.

This mission will take advantage of a rare alignment between Earth and Mars to launch two spacecraft to the Red Planet. This alignment will only be repeated in two years.

However, the path to preparing the rocket for this mission is full of problems. And the latest explosion and explosion of parts of New Glenn were not the company’s first strikes on the space vehicle front.

In September 2022, for example, the explosion of the engine of New Shepard – much smaller than New Glenn – kept the space tourism rocket on earth until December 2023.

As for New Glenn, the project is four years behind schedule. Blue Origin plans to use the rocket (it is almost 100 meters high) to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9. And launch the satellite constellation of Amazon’s Kuiper Project. Seeing how much of this gets off the ground in time.

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Another rocket engine explodes in a test just before its first flight

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket wasn’t the only one in which parts exploded this week. On Monday (19), the first stage of the first rocket at the Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) it was destroyed during a static fire test.

The event took place in Shetland, an island in Scotland. And it marked a major obstacle for the German company, which was about to launch its first publication.