A BlueOrigin rocketengine exploded during a ground-based test last month in a setback for the spaceflight company owned by Jeff Bezos.
The incident occurred at a Blue Origin test facility in West Texas on June 30 but has only just come to light, CNBC reported.
Related CNBC sources who saw a video of the incident said the rocket exploded about 10 seconds after it started firing, wrecking the engine and causing damage to the test stand infrastructure. The company said that it has another stand in West Texas available for engine tests, and insisted it’s still in a position to meet its engine delivery commitments for the rest of 2023 and “stay ahead of our customer’s launch needs.
This latest incident follows another stumble by Blue Origin in September 2022 when its New Shepard suborbital rocket suffered a failure while in flight.
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