Blue Origin’s uncrewed capsule safely escapes after midflight anomaly

Blue Origin aborted the mission due to an issue with the New Shepard rocket's booster. The failure occurred when the rocket reached max Q.

The escape system performed as designed despite the booster failure of the rocket.

The rocket took off from Blue Origin's West Texas site at around 10:26AM. You can see the moment the escape system is activated shortly into the flight.

The commentator says that the flight appeared to have an abnormality. We don't know anything yet. We will follow the progress of the crew capsule through landing. The mains are going to be pulled out next after the drogues deploy.

The capsule is intact and deploys chutes before it begins its journey back down to Earth. According to Eric Berger, if there were people on the plane, they would have felt a serious shock, but they would have been safe.

A group of people went to the edge of space in June, marking the fifth crewed mission for Blue Origin, which was founded by Jeff Bezos.

Blue Origin has confirmed a booster failure.