The launch of AST SpaceMobile’s seventh full-size mobile-broadband satellite—its first on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket—started better than it ended on Sunday morning, when that heavy-lift vehicle’s upper stage left AST’s spacecraft in an orbit too low for it to stay in space.
Jeff Bezos’ space enterprise reported this “off-nominal orbit” in a post on X that did not clarify whether that outcome meant “satellite will need to burn up extra propellant to reach the right…

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