“If people were on board, they would have gotten a big kick in the pants and felt some Gs, but they would have been just fine,” Berger said.There are three more passenger New Shepard missions planned for this year. While there were no humans in the capsule, there were 36 payloads of science experiments, half funded by NASA.
And the capsule got away from the rocket that was in the process of exploding,” Eric Berger with Ars Technica said. A solid rocket motor essentially at the base of this capsule fired right when it needed to. But the company said the escape system performed as designed.“It’s launch escape system. Normally, when you have those flashes, it means that there is some type of debris or some extra fuel or something happening,” said Paula do Vale Pereira of Florida Tech. One minute and four seconds into its 10-minute mission is when the booster of the Blue Origin NS-23 failed.Just after an irregular jet of flame streaked from the engine, the abort system kicked in and rocketed the capsule away from the failing main stage.“If you go back and play it very slowly, you see that there are some flashes. It’s an earlier version of one that’s launched six times with people onboard. The New Shepard rocket, now grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, was not carrying people. An “anomaly” forced an in-flight capsule abort Monday during a Blue Origin flight from West Texas.
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