Blue Origin’s New Glenn booster reflights succeed despite upper stage failure stranding AST SpaceMobile satellite
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket achieved its first successful booster reflight on April 19, 2026, but the mission was undermined by an upper stage malfunction that left its payload in an unusable orbit. The 321-foot-tall New Glenn lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36 at 7:25 a.m. Eastern, after a brief … Read more