Blue Origin Blames Engine Part for New Shepard Booster Crash
Months after Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster went up in flames, the company released a report pinpointing the cause of the rocket anomaly that halted its operations.Following its investigations into the rocket failure, Blue Origin identified a “thermo-structural failure of the engine nozzle” as the reason why its uncrewed New Shepard rocket suffered a failure in September 2022, the company wrote in a press release on Friday. The nozzle on the booster’s engine overheated as a result of increased temperatures that caused!-->!-->!-->…