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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Science
Richard Luscombe

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin says it will fly again this year after explosion. Nasa needs it to

a rocket explodes
The uncrewed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a test on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral space force station in Florida on 28 May 2026. Photograph: NASASpaceflight.com/AFP/Getty Images

As Blue Origin tells it, the most spectacular launchpad explosion in recent memory, which destroyed its pioneering New Glenn space rocket last month and severely damaged almost everything around it, was merely a blip.

“We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter,” Dave Limp, the company’s chief executive, posted on X on 1 June, using the Latin form of its motto, “Step by step, ferociously”.

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