Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a ground test Thursday night at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, damaging equipment at the company’s Launch Complex 36. The “anomaly,” as Blue Origin called it in a post on X, occurred at about 9 p.m. during a hot-fire test of the rocket’s first-stage engines ahead of a planned launch of 48 Amazon Leo broadband satellites, which were not onboard at the time.