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Blue Origin launch aborted after mid-flight anomaly
Yahoo ^ | 9/22/2022 | NA

Posted on 09/12/2022 8:08:58 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1

Blue Origin launched its 23rd New Shepard rocket mission this morning, featuring science payloads designed for experimentation. The mission needed early, however, after it was aborted during the first ascent stage of the rocket, prompting the abort process to take over and firing the parachutes on the capsule, which drifted back to Earth shortly after take-off.

This was not a crewed mission, so there was no one on board the capsule, though it is the same vehicle that the company uses for its private spaceflight tourist missions. This marks the first time ever that Blue Origin has encountered a problem with the New Shepard spacecraft during a flight, in nearly two dozen missions.

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KEYWORDS: blueorigin; elonmusk; jeffbezos; methane; newshepard; shepard; spacex; starlink; tesla
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Wow, nasty video of it. Nobody was on it, but dang this is bad for Blue Origin
1 posted on 09/12/2022 8:08:58 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1
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To: KnightAstronomer1

Video: https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1569332182199443458


2 posted on 09/12/2022 8:09:21 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1
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To: KnightAstronomer1

Whoops.


3 posted on 09/12/2022 8:10:21 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: KnightAstronomer1

“The mission needed early, however,”

Huh? I suspect they meant ended early.


4 posted on 09/12/2022 8:10:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: KnightAstronomer1

People who booked flights on this Rocket will be canceling.


5 posted on 09/12/2022 8:12:19 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: KnightAstronomer1

Dang it, I was hoping my new nasal irrigator would be delivered by this new prime delivery system.


6 posted on 09/12/2022 8:13:52 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Larry Lucido

It did needed something early on I supposed.


7 posted on 09/12/2022 8:15:01 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Shady

8 posted on 09/12/2022 8:16:12 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Larry Lucido

Ended nearly....................😜


9 posted on 09/12/2022 8:19:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: tennmountainman

I don’t know, it seemed pretty survivable, abort worked. Imagine if this were Starship with 10+ onboard with no abort mode though.


10 posted on 09/12/2022 8:21:14 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1
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To: KnightAstronomer1

Is “Shepard” a hat-tip to Alan Shepard, or just a cutesy way of spelling “shepherd”?


11 posted on 09/12/2022 8:23:47 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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Like their upcoming New Glenn, they’re named after Mercury astronauts.


12 posted on 09/12/2022 8:25:49 AM PDT by KnightAstronomer1
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To: Larry Lucido; KnightAstronomer1; Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin

Just a minor software glitch in their spell checker ... It all needed well. (Er, nearly ended well.)


13 posted on 09/12/2022 8:27:47 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
They've got to stop every few blocks to drop off an Amazon delivery, that's probably throwing them off.

14 posted on 09/12/2022 8:29:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: KnightAstronomer1

That looked like a nasty hard landing.


15 posted on 09/12/2022 8:32:31 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: SunkenCiv

Glad the capsule separated and landed successfully. Read somewhere that when spacecraft do that, anyone on board pulls way more Gs than in regular flight. Beats getting incinerated of course.


16 posted on 09/12/2022 8:33:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Well, yeah, the sudden boost has to exceed the main booster, but it’s brief, and as you said, beats hangin’ around to see how the main ride would wind up. :^)


17 posted on 09/12/2022 8:45:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: V_TWIN

Seattle not Houston!


18 posted on 09/12/2022 9:38:34 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

One early spaceflight had a complete rocket engine failure after a “flight” of only a few feet up from the pad. As the main rocket stalled, then fell back and began burning, the capsule escape rockets fired (by the default failure of their own safety circuits), and blasted the capsule completely clear of the burning area. NASA signed off on the “capsule escape rocket test flight” ... that had not been scheduled yet!


19 posted on 09/12/2022 11:30:11 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: BenLurkin; Kaslin

A few other Mercury escape rocket tests were not so successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0w_xyePC_0


20 posted on 09/12/2022 11:32:49 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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