{"id":288362,"date":"2026-05-29T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:43:11","slug":"blue-origin-explosion-rocks-floridas-space-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288362\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin explosion rocks Florida&#8217;s Space Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn explosion reportedly tied to Blue Origin rocked Florida&#8217;s Space Coast on Thursday, filling the night sky with fire in Brevard County, new footage shows. The explosion was reported around 9 p.m.The Brevard County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement it had received info &#8220;that there was a failure of the test firing and an explosion,&#8221; adding preliminary reports show no injuries.On social media, Blue Origin said it experienced &#8220;an anomaly during today&#8217;s hotfire test.&#8221;&#8221;All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more,&#8221; the post states.WESH 2 News is working to learn more.Both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are scheduled to launch Falcon 9 and Atlas V rockets, respectively, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday.  &gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An explosion tied to Blue Origin rocked Florida&#8217;s Space Coast on Thursday, filling the night sky with fire in Brevard County, new footage shows. <\/p>\n<p>The explosion was reported around 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Brevard County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement &#8220;that there was a failure of the test firing and an explosion,&#8221; adding preliminary reports show no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Blue Origin said it experienced &#8220;an anomaly during today&#8217;s hotfire test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more,&#8221; the post states.<\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 News is working to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are scheduled to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/florida-spacex-falcon-9-launch-starlink\/71436376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Falcon 9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/florida-ula-atlas-v-launch-amazon-mission-space-coast\/71436355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlas V<\/a> rockets, respectively, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday.  <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion reportedly tied to Blue Origin rocked Florida&#8217;s Space Coast on Thursday, filling the night sky with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}