Blue Origin stands down from New Shepard launch

TEXAS — Blue Origin stood down from its uncrewed New Shepard launch on Tuesday morning to permit its staff to work on a difficulty with the rocket.

Posting on X, previously referred to as Twitter, Blue Origin acknowledged its staff was troubleshooting a difficulty with the New Shepard booster’s avionics.

A rocket’s avionics controls its flight, engine restarts and vertical touchdown, amongst different issues.

The NS-35 mission was supposed to depart Launch Site One pad in West Texas at 8:30 a.m. ET, however Blue Origin didn’t begin its stay feed or give an replace on the launch on the time of liftoff.

Spectrum News reached out to Blue Origin for a remark and is awaiting a reply.

When it does go up, the New Shepard will ship greater than 40 payloads into area. Some of these payloads embody 24 NASA experiments from its TechRise Student Challenge program.

And there are extra experiments which might be going up.

“The mission will provide over three minutes of clean microgravity for experiments from a range of organizations, including NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others,” Blue Origin stated.