Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

蓝色起源（Blue Origin）的新格伦（New Glenn）巨型火箭在四月事故后获准复飞

Blue Origin’s new mega-rocket, New Glenn, is no longer grounded. The company said Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the rocket to fly again after the upper stage failed to deliver a commercial payload during an April launch.

蓝色起源公司的新型巨型火箭“新格伦”（New Glenn）已解除停飞限制。该公司周五表示，在四月份的一次发射中，该火箭的上级未能成功将商业载荷送入预定轨道，随后美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）对其进行了调查，目前已批准该火箭恢复飞行。

Blue Origin didn’t offer much detail, but said in a post on X that the New Glenn upper stage “experienced an off-nominal thermal condition” that caused one of the three rocket engines to produce lower-than-expected thrust. As a result, the AST SpaceMobile satellite that Blue Origin was supposed to put into orbit instead burned up in Earth’s atmosphere instead. (AST SpaceMobile said it had insurance coverage that covered the cost of the lost satellite.)

蓝色起源并未提供过多细节，但在 X（原推特）上发文称，新格伦火箭的上级“经历了非正常的温度状况”，导致三个火箭发动机中的一个推力低于预期。结果，蓝色起源原定送入轨道的 AST SpaceMobile 卫星最终在大气层中烧毁。（AST SpaceMobile 表示，他们已投保，损失的卫星成本由保险覆盖。）

Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company submitted a report to the FAA and took “corrective measures,” but did not detail what those measures were. The mishap came on what was New Glenn’s third-ever flight, which otherwise went off without a problem. The company successfully re-used the New Glenn booster stage for the first time ever and landed it for a second time on a drone ship in the ocean.

杰夫·贝索斯旗下的这家航天公司已向 FAA 提交了报告并采取了“纠正措施”，但并未详细说明这些措施的具体内容。此次事故发生在“新格伦”号的第三次飞行中，除此以外，发射过程并无其他问题。该公司还首次成功实现了新格伦助推级的重复使用，并第二次将其降落在海上的无人回收船上。

The clearance means Blue Origin can now get back to its aggressive schedule for New Glenn this year. The company has said it plans to launch the rocket as many as 12 times by the end of 2026, though it’s unclear how much of an effect the one-month grounding has had on those ambitions.

此次获准复飞意味着蓝色起源可以重新推进其今年针对“新格伦”火箭的激进发射计划。该公司曾表示，计划在 2026 年底前完成多达 12 次发射，不过目前尚不清楚为期一个月的停飞对这些目标造成了多大影响。