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Mike Wall

Blue Origin says it finally knows what caused its New Shepard rocket launch to fail last year

Blue Origin's NS-23 New Shepard capsule pulls away from its doomed booster during a failed launch on Sept.12, 2022 near Van Horn, Texas.

Blue Origin has figured out what doomed its most recent spaceflight.

That uncrewed mission — known as NS-23, because it was the 23rd flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle — lifted off from the company's West Texas launch site on Sept. 12, 2022, carrying 36 scientific payloads skyward. 

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