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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin headed back into space with Big Shepard rocket after accident

18Dec

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin headed back into space with Big Shepard rocket after accident

[ad_1] The American company Blue Origin plans to launch its rocketv Big Shepard Monday for the first time since an accident more than a year ago, as the firm founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos heads back into space. The launch window from the pad in west Texas opens at 8:30 am local time (14H30 GMT), said Blue Origin, which plans to live stream the event.This mission known as NS-24 will not carry a crew but rather equipment for scientific experiments, more than half of which Blue Origin has developed in conjunction with NASA. In the accident in September 2022, the rocket booster stage crashed to the ground, although the capsule part of the spacecraft came down safely with parachutes. There was no crew aboard. The accident prompted a probe by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), whi...

SpaceX has few alternatives if lawsuit upends Musk’s Texas launch plans

[ad_1] Elon Musk-led SpaceX has few alternative options for test-launching its giant Starship spacecraft in the near term if a newly-filed lawsuit disrupts the breakneck speed of development at its remote Texas launch site, legal and industry experts say. Conservation groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday for approving SpaceX's rocket operations without conducting a deeper review of its environmental impact on land surrounding the Boca Chica, Texas, launchpad. That lawsuit was filed 11 days after the debut Starship flight toward space showered sand and debris miles from the Texas launchpad, and hurled chunks of reinforced concrete and metal shrapnel thousands of feet from the site, adjacent to a national wildlife refuge. Starship is SpaceX's next-generation r...

Explainer-Why U.S flights were grounded by a FAA system outage

[ad_1] Explainer-Why U.S flights were grounded by a FAA system outage. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed some flights to resume after an outage of the system that alerts pilots to any obstructions before take-off had earlier forced the civil aviation regulator to ground all aircraft in the United States.Over 4,000 flights were delayed and more than 600 canceled because of the outage as of early Wednesday morning. U.S flights were slowly beginning to resume departures as a ground stop was lifted. Here is a brief summary of what the pilot warning system does, what we know about what went wrong and background about the safety notices provided to pilots, known as NOTAM. WHAT HAPPENED?The FAA system that is meant to distribute notices to pilots on hazards failed at about 2 ...