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A New Glenn rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Nov. 13, 2025. (U.S. Space Force photo by Staff Sergeant Samuel Becker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In another humiliating blow to Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, the Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Blue Origin\u2019s massive New Glenn rocket following a spectacular mishap during its third flight.<\/p>\n

The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, April 19, and the booster even stuck the landing like a pro, but the upper stage completely botched the most critical part: putting a multi-million-dollar commercial satellite into the correct orbit.<\/p>\n

The satellite is now a total loss, with its onboard thrusters unable to save it. It will deorbit and burn up in a fiery reentry.<\/p>\n

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Fox 35<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

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The New Glenn rocket lifted off on Sunday without major issues, and its first-stage booster successfully landed on a drone ship, marking a technical achievement for Blue Origin. However, the payload \u2014 a communications satellite built by AST SpaceMobile \u2014 was placed into the wrong orbit, making it unusable.<\/p>\n

The satellite, known as BlueBird 7, was intended to support direct-to-cellphone broadband service. Instead, it was deployed into a much lower orbit than planned, leaving it without enough propulsion to reach operational altitude. The satellite is expected to reenter Earth\u2019s atmosphere and be destroyed.<\/p>\n

The lost payload represents a financial setback worth hundreds of millions of dollars and sent the company\u2019s stock (NASDAQ: ASTS<\/a>) lower on Monday. AST SpaceMobile is competing with firms including SpaceX and Amazon in the satellite communications market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The FAA wasted no time slapping a \u201cmishap\u201d label on the mission and ordering a full investigation. New Glenn is now grounded indefinitely until Blue Origin and the feds sort out what went wrong with the second-stage engines.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Monday, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp wrote on X:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow that we have a more complete view, we wanted to provide an update on our NG-3 mission. While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn\u2019t deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects.<\/p>\n

Early data suggest that on our second GS2 burn, one of the BE-3U engines didn\u2019t produce sufficient thrust to reach our target orbit.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin is leading the anomaly investigation with FAA oversight to learn from the data and implement the improvements needed to quickly return to flight operations. We have been in steady communication with the team at AST SpaceMobile, we appreciate their partnership, and we\u2019re looking forward to many flights together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now that we have a more complete view, we wanted to provide an update on our NG-3 mission. While we are pleased with the nominal booster recovery, we clearly didn\u2019t deliver the mission our customer wanted, and our team expects. Early data suggest that on our second GS2 burn, one\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave Limp (@davill) April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Remember when Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin cronies tried to sell us the \u201chistoric\u201d all-female spaceflight last year as some groundbreaking feminist triumph?<\/p>\n

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket blasted off from West Texas<\/a> carrying a hand-picked crew of six well-connected women: Bezos\u2019 then-fianc\u00e9e (now wife) Lauren S\u00e1nchez, pop star Katy Perry, CBS\u2019s Gayle King, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.<\/p>\n

The entire thing lasted roughly 11 minutes, straight up to the edge of space and straight back down.<\/p>\n

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