TEXAS — Blue Origin stood down from its uncrewed New Shepard launch on Tuesday morning to allow its team to work on an issue with the rocket.
Posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Blue Origin stated its team was troubleshooting an issue with the New Shepard booster’s avionics.
We’re standing down on today’s NS-35 launch attempt to continue to troubleshoot an issue with the booster’s avionics. We’re determining the next launch opportunity.
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) August 26, 2025
A rocket’s avionics controls its flight, engine restarts and vertical landing, among other things.
The NS-35 mission was supposed to leave Launch Site One pad in West Texas at 8:30 a.m. ET, but Blue Origin did not start its live feed or give an update on the launch at the time of liftoff.
Spectrum News reached out to Blue Origin for a comment and is awaiting a reply.
When it does go up, the New Shepard will send more than 40 payloads into space. Some of those payloads include 24 NASA experiments from its TechRise Student Challenge program.
And there are more experiments that are going up.
“The mission will provide over three minutes of clean microgravity for experiments from a range of organizations, including NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others,” Blue Origin stated.
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