{"id":1114,"date":"2026-05-29T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:51:58","slug":"blue-origin-rocket-explodes-in-major-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Fiery Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Blue Origin&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/blue-horizon-new-rocket-new-glenn\/\" class=\"text link\">New Glenn rocket<\/a> exploded on Thursday night during a hotfire test on the launch pad, lighting up the skies around the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In a post on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/blue-origin\/\" class=\"text link\">Blue Origin<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin\/\" class=\"text link\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> said that all personnel had been accounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt\u2019s too early to know the root cause but we\u2019re already working to find it,\u201d Bezos <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffBezos\/status\/2060182822170902622\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/JeffBezos\/status\/2060182822170902622&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffBezos\/status\/2060182822170902622\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cVery rough day, but we\u2019ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paywall\">What Is a Hotfire Test?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The test during which Blue Origin\u2019s rocket\u2014a vehicle that, at 98 meters tall, is one of the largest ever built\u2014exploded is known as a hotfire test, or static fire test. Essentially, it is a standard procedure carried out on the engines of a rocket, spacecraft, or prototype, in which the engines are ignited for a very short period of time and then shut down while the vehicle remains secured to the launch pad. The purpose of this test is to verify that the systems are functioning correctly before an actual launch.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paywall\">Blue Origin&#8217;s Rocket<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This would have been the fourth mission of the New Glenn rocket, which was slated to carry 48 satellites, destined to become part of Amazon Leo&#8217;s satellite Internet network, as soon as next week. &#8220;NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,&#8221; said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman in a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAAdmin\/status\/2060186268772835475\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/NASAAdmin\/status\/2060186268772835475&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAAdmin\/status\/2060186268772835475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on X. \u201cSpaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Isaacman further said that NASA would provide updates on any potential impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base missions when they were available; the agency has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nasa-details-its-plan-to-build-a-lunar-base-at-the-moons-south-pole\/\" class=\"text link\">contracted with both Blue Origin<\/a> and SpaceX for various aspects of its plans for a lunar return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This explosion represents the latest setback for Bezos&#8217;s company. On April 19, a failure occurred during the rocket&#8217;s third flight that prompted a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigation. During that mission, the rocket&#8217;s first stage had successfully landed on a floating platform, but the upper, or second stage, had failed to carry its payload\u2014AST SpaceMobile&#8217;s BlueBird 7 satellite\u2014 into a safe orbit. That investigation was just completed on May 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>This story originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.it\/article\/cos-e-hotfire-test-cosa-successo-razzo-new-glenn-blue-origin-esploso-piattaforma-lancio\/\" class=\"text link\">WIRED Italia<\/a> and has been translated from Italian.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/blue-origin-rocket-explodes-in-major-setback\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rocket exploded on Thursday night during a hotfire test on the launch pad, lighting up the skies around the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In a post on X, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said that all personnel had been accounted for. \u201cIt\u2019s too early to know the root cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[399,471,347,470,170,349],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-blue-origin","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-nasa","tag-rockets","tag-space","tag-spacecraft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Fiery Setback - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida, and may have long-term implications for the company&#039;s ambitions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=1114\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Fiery Setback - 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