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World’s leading billionaire Jeff Bezos, who is preparing to give a tough challenge to Elon Musk’s company SpaceX in the space race, has suffered a huge and crushing blow. On Thursday, a very ambitious rocket of Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company ‘Blue Origin’ suddenly suffered a massive explosion during testing. The explosion was so powerful that many houses and buildings built in the areas around the launch pad were badly shaken. Due to the black smoke coming out after the explosion and the bright light of the fire, for some time the whole sky started looking like a scary orange colored ball.
Blue Origin officially confirmed the incident and said that this unexpected accident occurred during the engine static fire test of its heavy ‘New Glenn’ rocket. It is a matter of relief that despite this terrible devastation there was no loss of life. The company issued a statement on social media platform ‘X’ (Twitter) saying that all the employees present at the launch site have been safely traced and are completely safe.
Earth shook at 9 pm, scary pictures went viral on social media
According to eyewitnesses living near the launch site, at around 9 pm on Thursday night the earth suddenly started shaking in the areas of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach and the windows of the houses rattled. Soon after, panicked locals started trying to find out what was the matter on social media.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s ‘Launch Complex-36’ (LC-36) is clearly visible from the beach. Within minutes, pictures and videos of orange fireballs and debris rising into the sky started going viral on the internet. Blue Origin issued a brief statement on the incident, saying, “During today’s ‘Hotfire’ test we encountered a highly unusual and unexpected event. The cause of this technical failure is being closely investigated, and we will share it with the world as we learn more.”
There is no biological threat from the smoke, but the mission suffered a major break.
Emergency and administrative officials reached the spot immediately after the accident and took stock of the situation. Officials reassured the local public that there is no biological threat to the general public due to the smoke spread in the sky after the rocket explosion or any other possible chemical leak.
However, this accident has put a big brake on the credibility of Blue Origin and its future space missions. Let us tell you that this giant New Glenn rocket was also stopped in the month of April this year, when due to a sudden failure in its engine, it left a satellite in a very wrong and unsafe orbit instead of its scheduled orbit. This was only the third important flight preparation of this rocket, which Jeff Bezos’ company is going to use for the upcoming Moon missions of the US space agency ‘NASA’.
Crisis looms on NASA’s ‘Moon Mission’, Jeff Bezos’ mega plan is failing
This superpowerful rocket has been named ‘New Glenn’ after John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. The real mega plan of Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin is to launch a big joint mission with NASA. Under this mission, the company wants to land its ‘Blue Moon Lander’ safely on the most mysterious part of the Moon i.e. the South Pole. NASA scientists believe that a huge amount of ancient ice may be hidden in the deep craters present in this part of the Moon, which will be useful for establishing human settlements in the future.
This Chandrayaan mission was considered to be the biggest step for Jeff Bezos, who is trying to monopolize the commercial space race and space tourism market. But due to repeated technical failures, till now this project has not been able to get the green signal for success. After this failure, NASA is now working on a plan with two more giant private sector companies – Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines – to speed up its two other Moon missions, which could be another big business blow for Blue Origin.
