The Federal Aviation Administration has said that it will allow Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to fly again, following a review of the January mishap in which the rocket made a successful debut launch but crashed during landing.
The Federal Aviation Administration has said that it will allow Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to fly again, following a review of the January mishap in which the rocket made a successful debut launch but crashed during landing.
As is standard in such events, the FAA had grounded the rocket immediately after the accident while the Jeff Bezos-owned company investigated.
« The final mishap report identified the proximate cause of the mishap as an inability of New Glenn’s first stage to restart the engines, preventing a reentry burn from occurring, and resulting in the loss of the stage », the FAA stated in a press release.
New Glenn launched Jan. 16 on the NG-1 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 carrying a payload to orbit. Similar to how the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket first stages land on droneships stationed in the Atlantic, Blue Origin’s heavy-lift rocket is designed to be reused.
