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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket engine explodes during testing (www.cnbc.com)
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It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn.

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the explanation!

[-] stevecrox@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Apparently this particular engine had components which failed early testing, they thought they fixed the issue and clearly hadn't.

To be honest that reason just makes me think how they are approaching testing is wrong.

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