Let us all be very clear: it is the most phallicly-shaped rocket ever designed, and it suffered a premature ejection lol

Like an ejection seat, you never want to exercise it. But it is impressive to see it actually work. As a next step, I’d like to see the time series velocity data to estimate the acceleration experienced. I think you’re right - it won’t be pretty.

That looked brutal.

This is what I call a "successful failure". While the booster fail it was a real world test even if unplanned of the abort eject system and it worked perfectly.

It would be interesting to know how many G's the crew would have experienced. That looked brutal.

The emergency abort seems like a more exciting ride than the regular one. This may drive demand up rather than down.

That the abort systems functioned flawlessly would make me more inclined to take a ride, not less ..... but I am an engineer, so maybe 'normal' people would see it differently.

On the plus side for Blue Origin, having an unplanned in-flight abort shows that their abort system works properly in a non-test scenario. It's clearly not good that the system was needed and used, but bravo Blue Origin!

It appears the abort went well. You can see the rocket yaw a bit out of parameters and it immediately initiated abort.

Looks like the "Zero-G" notification on the UI is just tied to capsule separation event, because it shows up right as "Separation / Zero-G" step activates on the left. At least the separation step is triggered by actual telemetry data as it looks. The progress bar is not jumping up there though, probably because the MECO step was missed.

Another good phrase like that is "parts recovery turbine" for the "power recovery turbines" on the super fortress that would get killed by engine chunks coming out the exhaust.

"Engine rich exhaust", a phrase that fits perfectly alongside "Rapid Unplanned Disassembly" and "Lithobraking". 😂

Thank you for reporting so quickly and so thoroughly on this event. Great job! 🙂

Thanks for your quick assessment of the situation.

thanks Scott, for keeping us in the loop

Thanks for the update,Scott!

A firey but mostly peaceful mission.

Thanks for getting this video out this fast!

Nice seeing that lifeboat work as intended. That little thing boogies when it separates from the booster

Indeed Scott, fly safe!