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New Glenn's third flight landed its reused booster successfully but an upper stage engine failure put AST SpaceMobile's satellite into an unusable orbit, triggering an FAA investigation and grounding.

New Glenn-3 will refly the booster that landed after delivering NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes, deploying AST SpaceMobile's 2,400-square-foot BlueBird 7 direct-to-device satellite.

AT&T commits $250 billion through 2030 to expand fiber, 5G, and satellite networks, but analysts question how much is new spending versus relabeled costs.