Blue Origin s New Shepard just before its capsule fired its launch escape motor on a Sept. 12 launch. Credit: Blue Origin webcast WASHINGTON Blue Origin says it is preparing to resume flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle after completing an investigation into a failed launch last September. Blue Origin announced March 24 that
When will Blue Origin reveal what happened on its NS-23 mission? Blue Origin still doesn't know what happened with its New Shepard rocket. Jeff Bezos' private space company has yet to figure out what caused its New Shepard rocket to experience the anomaly it encountered six months after experiencing it.