{"id":288376,"date":"2026-05-29T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:56:15","slug":"blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-on-launch-pad-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288376\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred at about 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Blue Origin said there were no injuries from the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We experienced an anomaly during today&#8217;s hotfire test,&#8221; Blue Origin said in a statement. &#8220;All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vlcsnap-2026-05-28-18h33m41s055.png#.png\" alt=\"Blue Origin rocket explodes on launchpad in Florida \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A Blue Origin rocket explodes on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. May 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                SPACEFLIGHTNOW<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin was scheduled to fuel the rocket Thursday evening ahead of a planned test firing of the rocket&#8217;s engines.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-satellite-wrong-orbit\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">successfully launched<\/a> its third New Glenn Rocket last month. <\/p>\n<p>This rocket was being prepared to launch the fourth New Glenn mission as soon as June 4 to launch 48 satellites for Amazon&#8217;s Leo internet service, which competes with Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3950,13372,1767,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-amazon","tag-blue-origin","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288376","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=288376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}