{"id":389029,"date":"2026-04-20T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:14:07","slug":"blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-grounded-after-delivering-satellite-to-wrong-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389029\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket grounded after delivering satellite to wrong orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket after it shuttled its payload to the wrong orbit during its launch on Sunday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/04\/20\/faa-grounds-blue-origin-new-glenn-after-labeling-mission-a-mishap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report from the Orlando Sentinel<\/a>. \u201cThe FAA is aware that Blue Origin New Glenn 3 experienced a mishap during the second-stage flight sequence following a successful launch,\u201d the FAA said in a statement obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">On Sunday, the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin successfully launched New Glenn from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/science\/914729\/blue-origin-successfully-reused-its-new-glenn-rocket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the rocket\u2019s reusable booster returned<\/a> to its landing pad without issue, the rocket\u2019s upper stage failed to deliver AST SpaceMobile\u2019s BlueBird 7 satellite. AST SpaceMobile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260419512905\/en\/AST-SpaceMobile-Addresses-Todays-Orbital-Launch-of-BlueBird-7-on-the-New-Glenn-Launch-Vehicle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says the satellite<\/a> \u201cwas placed into a lower-than-planned orbit,\u201d which is \u201ctoo low to sustain operations.\u201d The satellite will be de-orbited as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Blue Origin confirmed that its <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blueorigin\/status\/2045829728058089917?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">second stage<\/a> shut off its engines and was in a \u201ccoast phase\u201d after reaching an \u201coff-nominal\u201d orbit, but it didn\u2019t provide any other details about what went wrong or when it will return to Earth. As noted by astronomer Jonathan McDowell, Space Force <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/planet4589\/status\/2046204356144324677?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">data shows an object in orbit<\/a>, but it\u2019s unclear whether it\u2019s tracking the AST satellite or New Glenn\u2019s upper stage. Neither the FAA nor Blue Origin immediately responded to The Verge\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket after it shuttled its payload to the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,43,139,69,147,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-389029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}