Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it

The launching appeared to go off without a hitch, but a problem prevented the rocket's upper stage from putting its payload into the correct orbit.

The reusable booster of the New Glenn rocket launched from ⁠Florida ⁠on Sunday by Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin ⁠touched down successfully but the rocket failed to deploy the AST SpaceMobile communications satellite it was carrying into the ​correct orbit.

Blue Origin's newest rocket has been grounded after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered an investigation into a "mishap" involving the failed launch of a satellite. The company, founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos,

The FAA has grounded Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket following an incident in which it failed to put a payload in orbit. There will be an investigation.

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.

Blue Origin used a previously flown rocket booster for a satellite launch and landed it again, but the satellite went into the wrong orbit.

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket and landed its booster stage, but it delivered a satellite into an orbit too low to be useful.