The New Glenn Rocket by Blue Origin’s New Glenn is raised from January 16, 2025. Credit: Blue Origin
The Federal Aviation Administration has completed its investigations by examining the “accidents” that occurred during the new Glenn Rocket launch of Blue Origin and Il Volo Spacex’s Starship 7 of January.
On January 16, Blue Origin’s new Glenn-1 reached an orbit in his debut flight. While the launch was successful, the rocket lost its lower stage during its descent.
Later that evening, Spacex launched his rocket for astronavians, who exploded involuntarily on the Caribbean. At the arch of 400 feet, the spaceship was the largest rocket ever, even if an interrupted journey.
The FAA is required to investigate and provide corrective actions following an interruption event through its interruption response program. In these cases, the agency has supervised the investigations conducted internally by Blue Origin and Spacex as regards its accidents.
The agency has accepted the results of both companies, which can be read here.
There have been no public accidents or damage to public property reported by the new Glenn-1 accident.
Blue Origin has discovered that the first stadium of New Glenn has not been able to restart its engines and prevent a return of return to occur, causing its loss of stage. Seven corrective actions have been identified to prevent this from happening again and FAA will verify that these actions are implemented before the launch of the new Glenn-2 mission.
According to Reuters’ reports, New Glenn-2 aims to launch this spring later.
There were no public injuries during the flight 7 accident, although there was a confirmed report of minor damage to vehicles in the Turks and Caicos islands.
Spacex discovered that the probable main cause for the loss of spaceship was stronger than the vibrations planned during the flight, which led to an increase in stress and the failure of the hardware in the propulsion system. Eleven corrective actions were identified and FAA verified that Spacex would implement them before flight 8.
Second Starship explodes
On March 6, Spacex Starship 8 flight met the fate of his predecessor when he exploded on the Caribbean.
The FAA observed in her concluded survey of flight 7 which is supervising another survey led by Spacex on this accident. This investigation remains open.
“A return to the flight of the spaceship vehicle is based on public safety,” said Faa on its website. “Spacex cannot fail to launch the spaceship again until the FAA accepts the investigation relationship on the final even or makes a return to the determination of the flight and all the other license requirements are satisfied.”
Note of the editor: A version of this story originally appeared on the flight.
