Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad during a test. It can be seen in the footage that after the explosion the rocket turned into a big ball of fire. Blue Origin reported that the Hotfire test was being conducted in Cape Canaveral, Florida at around 9:00 pm on Thursday night. During this test, there was a malfunction in the rocket and this accident happened. This test was being done in preparation for a launch to take place in the coming days. Hot fire test is a very important process to check the efficiency of a rocket’s engine before sending it into space. In this, the rocket is tied tightly to the ground with the help of clamps on the launchpad itself. Then its engines are started at full power for a fixed period of time. Jeff Bezos said – All employees are safe, will try again Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said that all the employees are safe in the accident. We are busy finding out the cause of the accident. Today has been a very difficult day, but whatever needs to be rebuilt, we will rebuild it and get back to flying. There is no danger to the public, according to the US Space Force Brevard County Emergency Management, which is involved in the investigation, there is no danger to the general public from this explosion on the launch pad. The US Space Force has informed that emergency responders are present at the incident site. Additionally, officials are working closely with Blue Origin to evaluate the available data and determine the exact cause of the incident. NASA said – Spaceflight is not easy, will support complete investigation NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that spaceflight does not forgive anyone. Developing heavy-lift launch capability is an exceptionally difficult task. We support a full investigation of this incident. We will work closely with our partners to assess its impacts on upcoming missions and return to rocket launching. The new rocket was also grounded last month. This is the second major problem with Blue Origin in recent times. Only last month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had ordered an investigation into an accident related to the failed launch of a satellite, after which the company’s New Glenn was grounded. Blue Origin had a big success in November. Last year in November, Blue Origin successfully launched a ‘New Glenn’ rocket from Florida. During that mission, the company had succeeded in successfully landing its reusable booster for the first time. Blue Origin has spent billions of dollars in developing this New Glenn rocket in about 10 years. This rocket is as big as a 29-storey high building, whose first stage can be reused i.e. it is a reusable rocket. It has been designed to compete with Elon Musk’s Falcon rockets and powerful Starships. There were preparations to challenge Musk’s ‘Starlink’. Interestingly, just a day before this incident, i.e. on Wednesday, Blue Origin had announced that we are preparing to send 48 ‘Leo’ satellites of Amazon into the lower orbit of space (Low-Earth Orbit) through New Glenn rocket. With the help of these satellites, Amazon wants to create a worldwide broadband internet network, which will directly compete with Elon Musk’s ‘Starlink’ network. However, the company has not yet fixed any date for this launch. After the video of the rocket explosion surfaced, Elon Musk wrote on X- ‘Very unfortunate. Making rockets and operating them is really a difficult task.
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