New Shepard launch anomaly (NS-23)

Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable launch system has suffered an anomaly after being launched from the Launch Site One in West Texas, on 12 September 2022, at 14:26 UTC (09:26 CDT). The New Shepard capsule carried 34 payloads. Two payloads were placed on the exterior of the New Shepard booster for ambient exposure to the space environment. NS-23 was the ninth mission, launch and landing, for this New Shepard launch vehicle (NS3).
Credit: Blue Origin

[@SciNewsRo]

Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHq5moyjo9ChkLM New Shepard High-Altitude Escape Motor Test kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGWYqZ2Co92cl7M New Shepard escape test & booster landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYGofKWframUgpI

[@BrianPeppers42]

this lady talks like she is reading a book to 5 year-olds and then becomes silent when shit goes wrong lol

[@johnnylogan22]

That single engine redundancy is amazing

[@RaspySquares]

Good to see the emergency system working in action.

[@pricelessppp]

Virgin galactic don't have one.

[@RocketPal]

@@pricelessppp They dont need one. Just shut the engine down and land.

[@millennialmeows]

that capsule YEETED itself out of there. that was wild

[@jonathanricketts1425]

And it also demonstrates how safe this rocket is.

[@petert2098]

Nice that the capsule stayed stable and didn't tumble.

[@rafatowers]

the automatic activation procedure of the escape capsule worked perfectly

[@jwenting]

"there goes our retro thrust system". Except it didn't fire... The dust cloud was just the dust kicked up when the capsule hit the ground.

[@Brokenrocktail]

Watch other videos of capsule landings. This one appeared nominal. The retro thruster fires within three feet of the ground and cushions the hit, it's very hard to notice from outside the capsule, but this wasnt a hard hit, this was a nominal landing

[@supernova4760]

They did fire.

[@SciNewsRo]

William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo

[@Misterfloflomovievideo]

I'm almost sure it did fire, landing look like that everytime for NS and soyuz that has the same system. You can't really see the flame

[@SciNewsRo]

Jeff Bezos' landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@xnrv]

Not a big fan of BO, but thats outstanding job with succesfull capsule escape! Hope engineers will will find cause of engine anomaly real quick.

[@pricelessppp]

This was a good unexpected test of the abort motors! Glad it was a uncrewed flight.

[@moondoggie6546]

I thought she said "Crew capsule." Or was that screw capsule?

[@sudafedup]

@@moondoggie6546 it's a crew capsule, where usually a crew would be if it was launched with one. This one had scientific instruments in place of a crew.

[@greenseaships]

SCREWED, but uncrewed! :P

[@ramdas363]

@@sudafedup Was this a test of the escape system or did they get lucky that no one happened to be scheduled on board for this particular flight when previous flights did have a "crew"/passengers.

[@sudafedup]

@@ramdas363 nah, they forgot they left the janitor on board. Poor Eugene...

[@cseonlineclassesmalayalam]

what went up and came down safely is the heart of all space travel fans ..❤ The adventure has its own advantage and plan B worked(though hard). 👍

[@greg5176]

I'm just glad no one was aboard, even though the capsule escaped and landed successfully. Still would have been a rough ride!

[@goodgremlinmedia2757]

Props to Blue origin for a well designed launch escape system. It would have sucked being in there but they still walked away.

[@csok]

Who walked away?

[@goodgremlinmedia2757]

@@csok didn’t realize it was unmanned

[@johnkarpiscak1134]

Booster engine failure at T+1:04. Glad the LES worked well.

[@AeonExploration]

i feel like the capsule’s instability has improved a lot

[@maggiefeld3910]

That cloud of dust was kicked up when that capsule landed. If the retro's were working there would have been a cloud of dust before it it. That capsule hit HARD!!

[@SciNewsRo]

Similar dust at William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

Nope. Look at their other landings. They all look just like this. It's the landing thruster that kicks up the dust cloud. If the thruster had failed, there'd be very little dust..

[@El_Ucca]

They work just before touchdown

[@jameshowe7891]

Be honest though. That capsule crashed down hard. That dust cloud was not from any thruster.

[@SciNewsRo]

False, see William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@tmuny1380]

I can see they replaced the landing thrusters with inertial dampeners/double bounce speed reduction system !

[@CigarAttache]

😂😂😂 exactly

[@GatvolFourie]

thrusters my ass. Thats a hard clunk if i ever saw one....

[@moondoggie6546]

I wonder if any eggs broke inside.

[@uberlycidas]

I loved how she tryed to play the, "thrusters worked awesome, because were safe!" THUD! BOUNCE THUD!

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

@@GatvolFourie Watch videos of their previous landings. They all look exactly like this. The thruster is fired briefly just a moment before landing, kicking up a big cloud of dust. Until Blue Origin says otherwise, there is no reason to think the landing thruster did not fire as it should have.

[@BLITZKRIEG1]

woman was quick to shut up lol

[@jonathanricketts1425]

That is surprising, the first failure of a New Shepherd rocket, and their were no crews onboard

[@bluesifer8238]

It's crazy how he only counted from 5 to 0 and still managed to mess it up. FFS

[@christiankeen1644]

There was no rocket firing at the end like she said.

[@2k3r11s]

Except that yes, there was.

[@SciNewsRo]

See William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@elon9398]

@@2k3r11s It blows my mind that people still don't know about this, russian capsule does the same thing

[@unsulliedthe832]

This is ... a success of ... er ... recovery system in case of ... failure ...er ... anomaly

[@bradjakubowski8987]

Just watched that live. HOLY SHIT!

[@sobeautifulsrilanka]

Lady went silent when shit went wrong.

[@booster4470]

Seems there no 3rd party video of this launch? All I can find is "official" video. Seems a little too "canned".

[@drdata1967]

Te escape system worked perfectly, from watching it , it looked like the escape system activated simultaneously with the anomaly. Wasn't the smoothest landing ever maybe but any flight you can walk away from is a successful flight and It looks like,. thought it would have been a hell of a ballistic landing, the passengers would have been ok. Maybe Shatner at 93 or whatever would have needed a little help out, but I'd go tomorrow after seeing that crew capsule performance

[@kriznasanjumia]

glad to see no fatality God Bless THE NEW SAFETY IS AWESOME

[@danko8983]

no crew inside

[@halsnyder296]

Looked like some predictive telemetry there, but good performance of the safety system.

[@cwjarvis3]

Does anybody have video of the booster coming back down?

[@sunitamosesesq]

Not yet.

[@garysellars8761]

Coming back down??? You mean crashing into the desert....

[@cwjarvis3]

@@garysellars8761 since it was so low and so close to the launch site I figured they activated the FTS and the pieces would have come back down

[@cwjarvis3]

Unless they were hoping it was going to recover and propulsively land? They are out in the middle of the desert anyway.

[@scinanisern9845]

The altitude keeps climbing, the screen says Zero G and the capsule is on chutes. Must has scrambled the whole nine yards. Nothing makes sense except the speed.

[@hansvehof]

6:04 how many G's?

[@greenseaships]

Glad there weren't any 90-year-old actors on THIS one!

[@Republic3D]

Looks like it happened right on throttle up after MAX-Q.

[@CigarAttache]

Anyone know many Gs you’re pulling in this emergency escape system?

[@SciNewsRo]

Astronaut Nick Hague experienced more Gs on the descent kzbin.info/www/bejne/paGad3ujet6jrqc

[@marshallcarrigan1904]

Space travel at commercial airliner speeds, the motor housing for the escape booster is in the "crew" compartment!

[@erichaynes7502]

3:03-3:04 Booster debris seen to the right of descending Capsule

[@Erudite_TWR]

did booster land? or fail to land?

[@SciNewsRo]

Blue Origin: “The booster impacted the ground”

[@Erudite_TWR]

@@SciNewsRo thx

[@noecarrier5035]

Looks like the nozzle failed, maybe. Something goes awry with the motor and the plume changes from transparent blue to dirty yellow, debris seems to tumble away.

[@AeonExploration]

yeah, looks like the flames started coming from above where the nozzle should’ve been/was

[@cookie63079]

Thank goodness no one was on board

[@MrPinhead42]

Premature ejection?

[@Thect]

Engine failure detected, which triggered New Shepard's launch escape system.

[@danko8983]

is not like ejection is part from a succesful flight lol

[@matthewitt2276]

Premature ejectulation

[@blisterj]

off nominal situation does this mean its fubar

[@arjunraj823]

Wow

[@fredricbethune7803]

Damn lady, there was no retros to slow the capsule. That thing hitting the ground that hard would have broken spines.

[@SciNewsRo]

Look at William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@jasonkimmel3061]

Sure as shit didn’t look like a soft landing. Probably used all of its landing fuel for the escape maneuver. Hope everyone is ok.

[@SciNewsRo]

No people onboard, just scientific payloads.

[@danko8983]

as SciNews said above, no people onboard, but also, it in fact was a soft landing, the inmense amount of dust is because right before landing some little thrusters are activated to make the landing even softer, the escape engine is a totally different engine and fuel system, which is a little solid rocket booster located in the center of the capsule

[@SciNewsRo]

William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo

[@jayrod9979]

The escape rocket is different from the retro rocket fuel. If you look inside the capsule, there is a round "table" in the middle. That is where the solid rocket fuel fir the abort system is located. New Shepard is unique with it having a solid fuel for the abort system. Obviously it works well.

[@danko8983]

@@jayrod9979 actually many crew capsules trough history had had SRB for escape systems, i think that what you mean is it being the first integrating an SRB inside the capsule instead of the expendable escape tower

[@Jesse_de_jong]

Sad no pictures of the booster breaking up or chrashing

[@KMuse99]

That was a hard landing. Ouch!!!!

[@SciNewsRo]

See other landings: William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@elon9398]

The dust is from retro thrusters. the landing is pretty smooth, idk how people still don't know this

[@user-uf8yn8xm7h]

@@elon9398 the velocity is the same until impact. i can hardly notice that lol

[@llvopa]

After separation , did the booster crash or was it self destructed in flight?

[@erichaynes7502]

I think ground control remotely destroyed the booster. I thought I saw some debris while the capsule was falling.

[@Brokenrocktail]

Booster isn't wired for flight termation. The engine gets shut down and it just free falls. So if there were debris then the booster likely came apart after escape

[@ok.google]

4:04 takes a sip to continue

[@KrustyKlown]

Booster crashed???

[@lantrick]

big time.... lol

[@erichaynes7502]

Booster: Ah-chew!! Capsule: I'm the f_ck outta here!

[@jimhofoss9982]

about 35000 ft….capsule hit hard. good thing the chutes deployed nominally.

[@SciNewsRo]

William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@TomasMisura]

when orbital?

[@SciNewsRo]

New Glenn kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYfSYpp5gLqIeJY

[@hmichaelr1]

They say the New Shepherd is reusable. As what?

[@SciNewsRo]

This was the ninth launch for this New Shepard.

[@lantrick]

nothing is reusable forever... lol.

[@alexanderea99]

6:35 you can see the booster just tumbled after abort. Yes, you and I already knew what happened.

[@Deltaexe190]

Yeah. The engine failed

[@Castaniety]

Jebediah should pilot this

[@maicod]

I think the booster got lost

[@TroyRubert]

Looks like engine rich exhaust oof

[@seanklingensmith7713]

Too much blood passed through the booster causing shaft overload and a premature disconnection of the capsule.

[@tomboad1]

Premature....that's what she said...

[@gabocanovillavo]

De New Shepard is the New Edsel.

[@av_kovko]

Sad day for Blue Origin.

[@ChauToVal]

Lol no. Actually a good day. It shows how our abort system executed on plan.

[@08Roadgl]

Well that shut that overexuberant announcer right up!

[@danielcarriere1958]

No one on board 😂 thankfully

[@DanielRichards644]

I wanna see the booster video after the abort

[@lucashworld3576]

Capsule hit the ground very hard and i think people inside would have no chance to survive

[@SciNewsRo]

Have you seen other landings? Here’s William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@captaindunsel2806]

Confirmed. No survivors found in the capsule.

[@SciNewsRo]

😂

[@42BravoFoxtrot]

Where's the video of the rocket crashing ?????

[@ADproductorachile]

😲 pero que...?!

[@darrenmelrose9828]

So no space today lol

[@memyselfandi8150]

Sure looked like it hit hard on landing......

[@SciNewsRo]

Dust stirred by retro thrust, see William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@elon9398]

I would ride that tbh

[@danielxu9]

Looks like a massive engine failure!

[@TheSubaruCommunity]

Not unexpected 😉

[@mixdimiziv]

When dude perfect was in there

[@Spaceflightinc]

Better luck next time BO

[@jayrod9979]

Probably wont be a next time. I doubt BO will build another New Shepard rocket, by the time it would take to build New Glenn will already be flying and there will likely be a "commercial space station" that space tourists can visit likely via SpaceX but theres a small chance Sierra Nevada's Dreamchaser will become human rated in the not so distant future.

[@jayrod9979]

Good no one was onboard, but this was an excellent abort execution. I was starting to wonder if the rocket was getting burnt out from so many flights, I would be willing to bet it did. Not sure if extra precautions in terms of preparing the rocket for launch are taken with crew on board. Given BO's snail pace at building things, this is probably the end if New Shepard. I doubt they will build another rocker and I am certain the crew capsule needs to be rebuilt after using the abort system.

[@ChauToVal]

Lol blue has so many tails built. They have backups. Blue doesn’t just make one rocket.

[@ChauToVal]

@@elon9398 they flown a few times this past year.

[@SciNewsRo]

New Shepard - Flight list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#Flight_list

[@jayrod9979]

@@ChauToVal Are you sure about this? Both the rocket and capsules used for all manned launches showed signs of resuse. My understanding was BO had only 1 operational booster and 1 capsule. Regardless they will be grounded until at least the 2nd half of next year for the FAA investigation. If they fly again, the next flight will NOT be a crewed mission.

[@ChauToVal]

@@jayrod9979 I’m sure. They have a few spares built waiting to be assembled. They don’t just build one rocket and be done with it.

[@jamaal8298]

0:17

[@iambob3695]

Maybe check the G force numbers on impact before calling that a success.

[@supernova4760]

The retro thrusters fire at the last minute. That’s why you see a plume of dust. It appears that it hit hard but it actually didn’t. You would know this if you watched enough launches and landings.

[@SciNewsRo]

William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@marshallcarrigan1904]

@@supernova4760 Why did they cut so quick in the beginning, couldn't see the hoses detach at that close view?

[@greenseaships]

*toggle mic off* OHHH SHIT!!! *toggle mic on* As you can see, we have had an anomaly...

[@eskanderx1027]

Throttle back... And continue back up to space... NOT.

[@vinayak8392]

that is one rare site nowdays

[@richardhoutman5261]

That was a Hard landing crew would be dead or parilized.

[@SciNewsRo]

William Shatner’s landing kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@AeonExploration]

no, it has engines that kick up dust. The engines are actually to soften the landing

[@mrwilfredmyers7566]

That worked exactly how its suposed to work.

[@OneCupOfCoffee204]

The abort system worked perfectly.

[@parthparmar5666]

Even retrothtuster didnt work

[@JayGillyon]

Erectile dysfunction.

[@d-sx560]

Well, the abort system seems to work.

[@jaassil]

Why she stpos the narration? 😂😂😂

[@UYscuTi_]

That's a great opportunity to proove their abort system😮

[@gthawkings7355]

what a boring commentary!!

[@VanceLeeMusic]

Anomaly? Save that hundred dollar word and just use failure 🤣

[@SciNewsRo]

SpaceX’s failure, payload destroyed kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYW5nJumZbKrg8U

[@erichaynes7502]

Origin Blew

[@matthewitt2276]

This was planned

[@moondoggie6546]

Like a giant bottle rocket 🚀. I love fireworks. But all the green peacers out there are probably not too happy about launching stuff into the air. Carbon footprint, you know. Greenhouse gas and the planet. That was probably equivalent to a million cows farting at the same time. Can't wait for the next one...wait lemme grab some popcorn.

[@paintedpony2935]

99% failure. 1% success.

[@SciNewsRo]

100%: William Shatner kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbCmoV4Z96aopo
Jeff Bezos kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGrCdmN8gtR_lc0

[@liveuk]

Waste of energy and poluting for no gain, dum project.

[@SciNewsRo]

It burns hydrogen and oxygen, the exhaust is water. It sends scientific payloads to space and brings them back, allowing scientists to test their projects on a small scale.

[@RocketPal]

Bro, you know nothing about it.