Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin blasts customer’s satellite into wrong place

Bogdan Hofbauer

Jeff Bezos’ space tech company Blue Origin placed a customer’s satellite in the wrong orbit on Sunday, sending that firm’s stock tumbling Monday.  Shares of Nasdaq-listed AST SpaceMobile fell nearly 12% in premarket trading and were down roughly 8% from Friday’s close as of mid-day Monday. Blue Origin launched the “BlueBird 7” satellite from its Cape Canaveral, Fla., area site aboard its New Glenn rocket — but the satellite wasn’t hurled high enough, according to AST SpaceMobile.  “BlueBird 7