Space Trouble: Blue Origin’s (Bezos) Missile explodes, capsule ejects and lands
Blue Origin, the space transportation company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, had a bit of a problem: A launch of the New Shepard capsule carrier system was scheduled today, but something went wrong and the carrier exploded. luckily the launch was unmanned, but carried only about thirty scientific equipment.
The missile, which reached approximately 9,000 meters, saw the activation of the emergency ejection system of the New Shepard capsule, powered by solid rocket engines, and this led to the rocket breaking. You can see what happened at about 1.10 minutes of the video below. Then the capsule landed with the help of parachutes:
The Blue Origin webcast did not explain the anomaly, but the capsule's emergency detachment system appears to have been activated. This was after the rocket had passed maximum Q, the point where the vehicle faces maximum dynamic pressure during the ascent, and its BE-3 rocket engine was accelerating again to continue climbing on its suborbital trajectory. . Suddenly, the rocket's engine emitted a large, anomalous plume of fire and the escape engine aboard the spacecraft ignited.
It was the ninth flight of this booster, which is one half of the launch system which also includes a capsule. The emergency escape system worked as intended, quickly pulling the spacecraft away from the exploding rocket. Had the crew been aboard this flight, they would have experienced a significant jolt and some high gravitational forces before landing safely in the West Texas desert, but they probably would have landed alive and well.
Just yesterday his competitor Elon Musk posted the launch of the Falcon system …
Falcon arching to orbit pic.twitter.com/m7grug8FV9
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 11, 2022
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