Just after a minute into the flight, the New Shepard spacecraft suffered an unplanned separation from the rocket booster where a fiery explosion was visible from the ground and seen on Blue Origins streaming coverage of their 23rd launch since their program began.
The FAA has grounded all future Blue Origin launches until their investigation is completed. The FAA asks companies to "coordinate the release of factual information for awareness and to ensure any mention of the FAA’s oversight role in the investigation is properly portrayed," Kulm added.FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Monday morning's uncrewed Blue Origin launch of their New Shepard space craft ended in a mishap officially being called an "anomaly", and it is now under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. "The FAA does not prohibit commercial space operators from publicly discussing information about open mishap investigations," said FAA spokesman Steve Kulm in response to a Reuters inquiry. It's something that we have to coordinate with the FAA." "I'm not sure if we're gonna release the details. "Because we're doing this in coordination with the FAA, I can't get into those details," Cornell said when asked about investigation delays. Federal Aviation administration, which regulates commercial launch site safety, is overseeing Blue Origin's investigation and must approve of its findings. Cornell declined to provide details on where the investigation stands. The company expected to complete a "technical review" of the New Shepard failure by December last year, a Blue Origin executive told the Washington Post in November, but it is unclear if that review has been completed. New Shepard has flown several crews of paying tourists and company-sponsored guests to the edge of space, including Blue Origin's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on the rocket's inaugural flight in 2021.
For those missions, New Shepard launches a capsule to the edge of space to float in microgravity for roughly five minutes before making a parachute-assisted return landing. The mishap paused Blue Origin's only active rocket at the center of its space tourism and microgravity research business.
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