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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket engine explodes during testing (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stevecrox@kbin.social to c/space@kbin.social

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It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn.

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[–] stevecrox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently this particular engine had components which failed early testing, they thought they fixed the issue and clearly hadn't.

To be honest that reason just makes me think how they are approaching testing is wrong.

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