Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will return to flight tomorrow after over a year grounded

Blue Origin, the area firm based by Jeff Bezos, has lastly set a date for its New Shepard rocket’s first flight in additional than a yr, left it grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The corporate is concentrating on Monday, December 18 for liftoff from its West Texas facility. The launch window opens at 9:30AM ET.

New Shepard gained’t be carrying a crew for this flight, however may have science and analysis payloads on board, plus 38,000 scholar postcards stamped “Flown to Area!” from the program. It’ll be livestreamed on beginning 20 minutes earlier than takeoff.

Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket has accomplished each crewed and payload missions in its previous, together with in 2021 that kicked off its entry into human spaceflight. Six of its 24 flights have had people on board its crew capsule. On September 12, 2022, an uncrewed New Shepard skilled a failure after takeoff and crashed again to the bottom. Earlier than doing so, although, it was in a position to abort the capsule, which separated and made a secure parachute touchdown.

The FAA performed an investigation into the incident and gave Blue Origin 21 corrective actions to finish earlier than it may fly once more. The reason for the problem was discovered to be the failure of an engine nozzle that overheated. The FAA closed its investigation on the finish of September this yr.

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