The early moments of the flight appeared normal as the rocket accelerated toward space, but one minute and four seconds after liftoff, the BE-3 exhaust plume changed color slightly and an instant after that, a large burst of flame erupted from the base of the rocket. The ill-fated NS-23 mission began when the hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine powering the single-stage New Shepard “power module,” or booster, roared to life, propelling the spacecraft skyward from Blue Origin’s west Texas launch site. Two of the eight most recent flights, including the aborted mission, carried cargo only using a capsule specifically reserved for that purpose. Six of the last eight missions dating back to July 2021 carried passengers, including Bezos. The aborted flight last September 12 was Blue Origin’s 23rd and the fourth of 2022.
After about three minutes of weightlessness, the capsules fall back to Earth with a parachute-assisted touchdown near the launch pad. Owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin built the New Shepard system to carry passengers and microgravity experiments on up-and-down flights to the edge of space some 65 miles up. The company did not say when flights might resume, only that Blue Origin “expects to return to flight soon, with a re-flight of the NS-23 payloads.” The Crew Capsule and all payloads on board landed safely and will be flown again.” “The resulting thrust misalignment properly triggered the Crew Capsule escape system, which functioned as designed throughout the flight. “The direct cause of the NS-23 mishap was a thermo-structural failure of the engine nozzle,” Blue Origin said in a statement. Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an unpiloted New Shepard spacecraft toward the edge of space last September triggered a dramatic-but-safe in-flight abort, builder Blue Origin announced Friday, saying the company has identified fixes and plans to resume sub-orbital flights “soon.” All rights reserved.STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The BE-3 main engine on Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster fails about a minute after liftoff Sept.
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