{"id":402282,"date":"2026-04-20T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:49:08","slug":"the-faa-grounds-blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-after-failure-to-put-payload-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/402282\/","title":{"rendered":"The FAA grounds Blue Origin New Glenn rocket after failure to put payload in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket following an incident during Sunday’s launch from Cape Canaveral, according to reporting by Orlando Sentinel<\/a> and others. The rocket looked good on the way up but was ultimately unable to put its payload into the correct orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FAA is calling the incident a “mishap” and is beginning an investigation to “enhance public safety, determine the root cause of the event and identify corrective actions to avoid it from happening again.” The organization said in a statement that a “return to flight is based on the FAA determining that any system, process or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety.”<\/p>\n

The company hasn’t provided any information as to what happened with New Glenn that made it mess up the positioning. It was supposed to position a satellite into a 285 mile orbit after completing two burns, but telemetry data shows that the satellite only reached a 95 mile orbit, which is not sustainable.<\/p>\n

This was New Glenn’s third mission, and not the first time the rocket has been grounded by the FAA. Blue Origin was unable to land it after the debut launch<\/a> and it wasn’t allowed to fly again for nearly three months<\/a>. The agency hasn’t announced when the rocket will be cleared to fly this time, so we don’t know if it will put a crimp in Blue Origin’s plans to launch a bunch of Amazon Leo broadband satellites. That mission is currently scheduled for later this year<\/a> and will use the New Glenn rocket.<\/p>\n

The FAA has grounded several rockets due to mishaps in recent years, including the smaller Blue Origin New Shepard<\/a>. It has also grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9<\/a> and Starship<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket following an incident during Sunday’s launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4536,38534,85,46,75474,141,145],"class_list":["post-402282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-blue-origin","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new-glenn","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}