Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Jeff Bezos, was scheduled to launch an AST SpaceMobile satellite on April 18th. This is the first time a New Glenn booster has been reused.

The launch has now slipped to April 19th and for lift-off window opens at 06.45am (Eastern Time) from Florida. In the event of a problem, or bad weather, the launch can slip a further day to April 20th.

The satellite is a BlueBird 2 FM2 craft, and will be the seventh satellite orbited for AST. These BlueBird satellites are needed to build AST’s direct-to-consumer connectivity for cellular broadband.

AST is expecting to place 45-60 satellites into orbit this year.

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