Blue Origin says fixes are being implemented and New Shepard sub-orbital flights will resume 'soon.'
Structural failure of the nozzle at the base of a rocket engine powering an un-piloted New Shepard spacecraft toward the edge of space in September of 2022 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."
The company did not say exactly when flights might resume, only that Blue Origin"expects to return to flight soon, with a re-flight of the NS-23 payloads." The aborted flight on Sept. 12, 2022, was Blue Origin's 23rd and the fourth of that year. Six of the last eight missions dating back to July 2021 carried passengers, including Bezos. Two of the eight most recent flights, including the aborted mission, carried cargo only using a capsule specifically reserved for that purpose.
Blue Origin's webcast of the NS-23 launch last September showed a sudden change in the color and shape of the New Shepard booster's exhaust plume as the BE-3 main engine nozzle failed, triggering an in-flight abort . The right-side image shows Blue Origin's West Texas launch site as seen by an on-board camera.
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