Elon Musk reacted to Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket suffered a major explosion during a reported “hotfire test" at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday at roughly 9pm ET. Thick flames and thick smoke were seen billowing across Launch Complex-36.Elon Musk reacted to Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explosion during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Screengrab from NSF )It was anticipated that the massive 320-foot rocket would deploy 48 Amazon Leo broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit shortly.Shirin Gupta is a content producer with the Hindustan Times. She covers everything between politics, entertainment and sports at the US desk. Shirin got interested in political journalism during her time as a web editor at her college newspaper NCC News in Syracuse when she first started seeing the effects of national politics in life of her fellow colleagues.
Shirin has worked on a wide range of fast-moving and developing stories locally when she was at NCC editing accessible reports for the audience.
Her current role requires her to track real-time updates, verify information and present balanced coverage across diverse beats. Covering US politics from an international newsroom perspective has further deepened her understanding of how domestic decisions can have far-reaching global consequences.
