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Blue Origin Rocket Grounded After 'Mishap' Destroys Customer Satellite

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Blue Origin 's New Glenn Mission 3 (NG-3) was supposed to mark another step forward for the company's long-awaited entry into the commercial space launch market. Instead, the heavy-lift rocket's third flight ended in a partial failure and, for now, a full stop. The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded the New Glenn vehicle from future missions following a "mishap" during Sunday's launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida until an investigation into the incident can be completed.  The mission wasn't a total loss. New Glenn's reusable first-stage booster performed as expected and landed successfully. However, the upper stage failed at the job that mattered most for the mission: delivering its payload into the correct orbit.  That payload (the BlueBird 7 communications satellite for AST SpaceMobile, Blue Origin's first commercial launch payload for a customer) was supposed to be deployed into a roughly 285-mile orbit.…

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