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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin hit with major rocket setbacks
Blue Origin sustained failures in recent weeks of testing, including a factory mishap that damaged a portion of a future New Glenn rocket, the long-awaited centrepiece of the Jeff Bezos-backed startup’s push to take on SpaceX.
The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar, according to people familiar with the situation.
Blue Origin sustained failures in recent weeks of testing, including a factory mishap that damaged a portion of a future New Glenn rocket, the long-awaited centrepiece of the Jeff Bezos-backed startup’s push to take on SpaceX.
The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar, according to people familiar with the situation.