Thu. 12 Sep 2024, 9:11am ET
Benzinga
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On September 12th at 4:52 am EDT, the BlueBird 1-5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and delivered the five largest-ever commercial communications arrays into low Earth orbit.
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ:ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones designed for both commercial and government use, today announced the successful launch of its first five commercial satellites, called BlueBirds.