Space obsession, queen confessions.
On September 12, 2022, a New Shepard booster failed a minute after liftoff, and the capsule’s escape system pulled its science payloads to a safe parachute landing. Here’s what happened, what the investigation found about the engine nozzle, and how New Shepard flew again.
The BE-3PM and BE-3U share a name and propellants but use different cycles: tap-off for New Shepard’s landing engine and expander bleed for New Glenn’s upper stage. Here is how each works, how the thrust numbers kept climbing, and what the NS-23 failure taught Blue Origin.
Blue Origin is more than New Glenn and the Moon. Here’s what happened to New Shepard’s tourist flights, what the Blue Ring in-space vehicle does, and what’s known about the crew spacecraft Blue Origin’s CEO just confirmed.