April 19 (UPI) -- Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket and landed its booster stage, but it delivered a communications satellite into an orbit too low to be useful.
New Glenn-3, the third launch of the company's rocket, cleared the tower just before 7:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday morning and roughly six minutes later its first stage touched down on the "Jacklyn" drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The fully reusable booster, called "Never Tell Me The Odds," was making its second landing as the mission hit its second stage engine cutoff, entered orbit and released AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite successfully.
The release was successful and the satellite powered up properly, but had been placed into "an off-nominal orbit," Blue Origin said in a post on X.
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