SpaceX launches 5 giant BlueBird smartphone satellites for AST SpaceMobile, lands rocket

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SpaceX launches 5 giant BlueBird smartphone satellites for AST SpaceMobile, lands rocket
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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.

Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches five giant AST SpaceMobile broadband satellites for cell phones from Space Launch Complex 40 of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 12, 2024.AST SpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites have reached orbit.

The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about 7.5 minutes later, making a vertical touchdown at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 1. It was the 13th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to aEach BlueBird sports a communications antenna that covers 693 square feet when unfolded — the largest such array ever deployed by a commercial spacecraft. The five 3,300-pound BlueBirds tie that record, actually.

Such news doubtless makes many astronomers and dark-sky advocates nervous. BlueWalker 3 is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, after all; one astrophysicistA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketlands after launching five giant AST SpaceMobile broadband satellites for cell phones from Space Launch Complex 40 of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 12, 2024.

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