Blue Origin is targeting late February for the third launch of its mega-rocket, the New Glenn. But it won’t go to the moon Company was previously suggested. The rocket will instead carry a satellite into low-Earth orbit for the AST SpaceMobile, marking the second time Jeff Bezos’ space company has flown a commercial payload with New Glenn.

The agency did not immediately explain why it chose to launch the AST Spacemobile satellite instead of its own robotic lunar lander. The lander, known as Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1), is currently being sent to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. Vacuum chamber test. A launch date for that mission has not been set.

Still, this will be the third New Glenn launch in just over a year, after a decade spent developing the rocket.

The launch comes in a busy month for spaceflight: NASA could launch its Artemis II mission, which will carry four astronauts to orbit the moon, as soon as February 6; SpaceX is expected to begin testing the third version of its Starship rocket; And NASA and SpaceX will launch the Crew-12 mission, which will help bring the International Space Station back to full staff after the Crew-11 team. Medically evacuated earlier this month.

For this launch, Blue Origin will reuse the booster stage from the second mission to New Glen, which was last. November. The company recovered the booster by landing a drone in the ocean, something SpaceX has been doing for years with its Falcon 9 boosters.

New Glenn is Blue Origin’s first vehicle to regularly deliver payloads into and beyond Earth orbit, and builds on the New Shepard suborbital rocket program that has been in operation for more than a decade. The company signed a contract with AST SpaceMobile to send multiple satellites into orbit to help build its space-based cellular broadband network.

But New Glen is just one part of the company’s larger ambitions. In November, the company unveiled a super-heavy variant of the New Glenn that would be taller than SpaceX’s Starship equivalent, a Saturn V rocket. And on Wednesday, the company announced a satellite Internet constellation called TeraWave that it plans to begin deploying in late 2027.

The company hopes to use its Blue Moon landers on missions to the Moon and Mars, and is developing another spacecraft called the Blue Ring that could host and deploy payloads for other space agencies.