SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Payload for AST SpaceMobile, Lands Booster Written 12 September 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches AST SpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral, 12 Sept. 2024. | Credit: The Launch Pad; YouTube; Framegrab
SPACE reports, “AST SpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites have reached orbit. The huge spacecraft, called BlueBirds, lifted off today (Sept. 12) at 4:52 a.m. EDT (0852 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. … Each BlueBird sports a communications antenna that covers 693 square feet (64 square meters) when unfolded — the largest such array ever deployed by a commercial spacecraft.”
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