Sep 122022
 

An unmanned test flight of the New Shepard suffered a catastrophic engine explosion. The capsule seemed to successfully separate and landed normally, but that would have been a *damned* rough ride, with a bunch of eyeballs-out G’s for a few seconds.

On other launch matters: Firefly is gonna try to launch again today, not sure what time:

WHOOPS: scrubbed.

 

And NASA wants to try to launch Artemis on the 23rd.

Its maiden flight is now tentatively scheduled to take place on:

    • Between 6:47 a.m. EDT and 8:47 a.m. EDT on Friday, September 23, 2022.
    • Between 11:37 a.m. EDT and 12:47 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
 Posted by at 3:59 pm