Mengzhou’s Pad-Abort Test Proves Its Emergency Readiness At exactly 12:30 p.m. Beijing time, the Mengzhou spacecraft fired its solid rocket-powered escape engines while still on the launch pad.

It was first designed in June 2007 and was part of what’s known as the Max Launch Abort System, named after Maxime Faget, who developed the original Mercury escape system. The capsule will be ...

A New Shepard rocket and spacecraft were set to launch a batch of science instruments on September 12, 2022. But one minute into flight, the rocket endured Max Q - an aerospace term that refers to ...

A New Shepard rocket and spacecraft were set to launch a batch of science instruments on September 12, 2022. But one minute into flight, the rocket endured Max Q — an aerospace term that refers ...

The first launch in more than a year of Blue Origin’s New Shepard tourism rocket, designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space, was scrubbed Monday morning. The Jeff ...

Around that time, the rocket appeared to emit a massive burst of flames. The New Shepard capsule, which rides atop the rocket, then initiated its launch abort system — firing up a small engine ...

A Blue Origin rocket experienced a “booster failure” during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning, triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule ...

A Blue Origin rocket experienced a “booster failure” during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning, triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule ...

Blue Origin rocket experiences ‘booster failure,’ activates abort system during uncrewed launch By CNN Newsource September 12, 2022 1:21 PM Published September 12, 2022 9:26 AM ...

The launch window for New Shepard's 23rd mission opened at 8:30 a.m. central time. Liftoff occurred at 10:26 a.m. from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West ...

Blue Origin experienced an "anomaly" during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Monday morning, triggering an abort system that allowed the capsule to parachute to Earth.