{"id":540284,"date":"2026-04-20T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:35:08","slug":"blue-origin-successfully-reused-its-new-glenn-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540284\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/913752\/blue-origin-reusable-rocket-test-ast-sapcemobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today\u2019s launch<\/a> of AST SpaceMobile\u2019s BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin\u2019s reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial success. The New Glenn touched down on its landing pad without incident, making it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/820565\/blue-origins-new-glenn-booster-makes-a-successful-landing-for-the-first-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second launch and landing<\/a> for the first stage booster, and officially giving Jeff Bezos a reusable launch vehicle. Unfortunately for AST SpaceMobile, the mission was less successful. Its cell-tower-in-space was delivered to a lower orbit than expected by the second stage of the launch vehicle, rendering it functionally useless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Bezos, for his part, posted a video of the landing on X without comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s launch of AST SpaceMobile\u2019s BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin\u2019s reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4355,84,59,50,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-blue-origin","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}