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A Blue Origin rocket exploded during a trial astatine the motorboat pad connected Thursday nighttime (May 28, 2026), shaking adjacent homes and concisely coating the entity orange.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin said its New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test. All unit person been accounted for, the institution said via X.
Emergency officials said determination is nary menace owed to fumes oregon different imaginable hazards.
The monolithic New Glenn was grounded successful April aft it near a outer successful the incorrect orbit due to the fact that of motor failure. It was lone the 3rd formation of the rocket that Blue Origin intends to usage to motorboat landers to the satellite for NASA.
Homes shook successful adjacent Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach astir 9 pm, with residents turning to societal media to wonderment what happened. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 is disposable from the beach, and the net rapidly filled with photos of an orangish fireball.
“We experienced an anomaly during today’s hotfire test,” Blue Origin said successful a little statement. “We volition supply updates arsenic we larn more.”
New Glenn made its debut successful 2025 from Cape Canaveral. It is named aft John Glenn, the archetypal American to orbit Earth.
