Key Points
- A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded during a test at the Florida launch pad Thursday night. S1
- The incident is the latest setback for Jeff Bezos’s space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. S2
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- Failure comes days before planned launch of internet satellites for Amazon S4
- A hot-fire test of the New Glenn rocket went awry, resulting in the rocket exploding into a fireball. However, Blue Origin's owner, Jeff Bezos, vows to find the cause of the explosion and get back to flying. S5
- No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a test in Florida on Thursday, an incident which the aerospace company called an “anomaly.”“All personn... S6
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