Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is grounded after launching satellite into wrong orbit

Jeff Bezos' rocket institution Blue Origin is blaming a atrocious motor for a failed motorboat that near a outer successful the incorrect orbit, dooming it

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, blamed a atrocious motor Monday for a failed play motorboat that near a outer successful the incorrect orbit, dooming it.

Launches of the immense New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration implicit their investigation.

The rocket blasted disconnected from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station connected Sunday. The recycled first-stage booster performed well, landing connected an water barge respective minutes into the flight. But the precocious signifier was incapable to enactment the outer into a precocious capable orbit to statesman operations.

Preliminary information bespeak that 1 of the precocious signifier engines failed to nutrient capable thrust, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said Monday.

There was nary contiguous connection connected erstwhile oregon wherever the rocket's precocious signifier oregon the AST SpaceMobile outer mightiness plunge done the atmosphere. The outer was expected to articulation AST SpaceMobile's orbiting web of satellites designed to supply nonstop space-to-smart telephone service.

It was lone the 3rd formation for New Glenn, Blue Origin's hulking rocket for delivering spacecraft to orbit. NASA is counting connected New Glenn to motorboat Blue Moon lunar landers for the Artemis satellite program. SpaceX's Starship is besides successful the moving to onshore astronauts connected the satellite arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2028.

Towering much than 320 feet (98 meters), the rocket is named for John Glenn, the archetypal American to orbit Earth successful 1962.

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