Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket was scheduled to launch AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite on April 19, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The BlueBird Block 2 satellite represented a significant advancement in commercial communications technology, featuring a massive 2,400 square-foot communications array that would make it the largest satellite ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit. Designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of earlier BlueBird Block 1 satellites, the payload was engineered to support 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service across the United States, with communication beams capable of supporting up to 40 MHz and peak data transmission speeds reaching 120 Mbps for voice, data, and video applications.

The New Glenn heavy-lift launch vehicle, developed by Blue Origin, lifted off from the Florida spaceport as the company's third operational flight of the massive rocket. The mission utilized the second New Glenn first-stage booster, nicknamed "Never Tell Me The Odds," which had previously achieved recovery during the EscaPADE mission, making it the first New Glenn Stage 1 booster to be reused.

The mission ended in launch failure on April 19, 2026, preventing BlueBird 7 from reaching its intended orbit. The loss represented a setback for AST SpaceMobile's ambitious constellation expansion and Blue Origin's New Glenn operational cadence.