New Glenn Flight Leaves AST’s BlueBird in Too-Low Orbit
TL;DR
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket carried AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellite, but the upper stage placed it into an orbit too low for its thrusters to operate, effectively dooming the mission; AST plans to de-orbit the satellite under its insurance, while Blue Origin continues with other tests and AST pursues a larger BlueBird constellation in the coming years.
Topics:top-newstechnology#ast-spacemobile#blue-origin#bluebird-satellite#new-glenn#orbital-failure#technology
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