Bezos's commercial space launching aircraft, the rocket crashed during the test flight

Jimu Journalist Hu Li

According to the "Wall Street Journal" reported on September 13, the "New Shepade" aircraft owned by Amazon's founder Bezos performed a manned space test flight on the 12th. After the launch, the Rockets failed and crashed without causing casualties.

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On the morning of September 12, local time, Bosos's blue origin company tested a test flight at a launch site in western part of Texas. After about 1 minute, the rocket's booster failed. Then the Rockets crashed on the ground, and the space capsule opened the parachute to fall back to the ground. There was no casualties.

Blue Origin Company tweeted: "No one flying a booster today fails, and the escape system is carried out according to the design."

According to reports, the Blue Origin Company has conducted flight testing on the "New Shepade" aircraft and its safety system since 2012. This is the 23rd space test flight of the "New Shepad" aircraft. The Rockets should have been launched two weeks ago, but due to bad weather, they were postponed until the 12th.

The design goal of the "New Shepad" aircraft is to send astronauts and researchers into space. Its flight height can reach about 107 kilometers, exceeding the "Carmen Line" with a table of about 100 kilometers from the floor. This is the definition of international aerospace definition definition The border between the earth and space. On July 20, 2021, Bezos and his brother Mark took the blue rocket to the high -altitude of 100 kilometers from the surface of the ground.

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