New Glenn third flight leaves satellite stranded in wrong orbit
TL;DR
Blue Origin's third New Glenn flight recovered the first stage, but the second stage placed AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite into a lower-than-planned, unusable orbit, rendering the payload inoperable and likely to deorbit; investigators are assessing what went wrong.
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