Blue Origin’s latest NS-23 flight didn’t go in response to plan. On Monday morning, the personal house agency was compelled to abort the uncrewed mission after one in every of its New Shepard rockets suffered an unspecified “booster failure.” The drawback got here up a few minute after the flight took off from Blue Origin’s West Texas launch web site at 10:26AM ET. You can see your entire incident unfold within the video the corporate shared on Twitter.

“It appears we have experienced an anomaly with today’s flight,” a commentator mentioned in the course of the NS-23 livestream. “This was unplanned and we don’t have any details yet. But our crew capsule was able to escape successfully, we’ll follow its progress through landing. As you can see, the drogues have deployed, and the mains are going to be pulled out next.”

The capsule was carrying NASA-funded analysis tools. “It’s useless to speculate about what happened at this point. Not even the company knows the cause,” tweeted Eric Berger, senior house editor at Ars Technica, including in a separate publish that had the spacecraft been manned, the crew “would have felt a serious jolt, but would have been safe.”

Blue Shepard gained’t have the ability to fly once more till Blue Origin investigates the incident and the Federal Aviation Administration indicators off on the corporate’s findings.