Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Initially flight 3 of New Glenn was looking like a massive success with Blue Origin pulling off an unprecedented successful reflight of a booster on the 3rd flight. But, the mission wasn't over, and the updates went quiet when we were expecting to hear news about the Satellite being deployed.
Something went wrong with the second stage and the satellite ended up in an unusable orbit. And as of right now we don't even know if the second stage was deorbited, given the lack of response to this question I suspect it's still in orbit and will fall back in uncontrolled fashion in coming weeks.
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Initially flight 3 of New Glenn was looking like a massive success with Blue Origin pulling off an unprecedented successful reflight of a booster on the 3rd flight. But, the mission wasn't over, and the updates went quiet when we were expecting to hear news about the Satellite being deployed.
Something went wrong with the second stage and the satellite ended up in an unusable orbit. And as of right now we don't even know if the second stage was deorbited, given the lack of response to this question I suspect it's still in orbit and will fall back in uncontrolled fashion in coming weeks.
Follow me on Twitter for more updates:
twitter.com/DJSnM
I have a discord server where I regularly turn up:
discord.gg/zStmKbM
If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon
patreon.com/scottmanley
