Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird Block 1
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Sept. 12, 2024, 8:52 a.m. - Sept. 12, 2024, 12:52 p.m.
Sept. 12, 2024, 8:52 a.m. - Sept. 12, 2024, 12:52 p.m.
First five satellites for SpaceMobile’s cellphone-compatible broadband constellation.
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Tweaked launch window per marine navigation warnings.
Weather is 30% favorable for launch.
Tweaked launch window.
Official Webcast by AST SpaceMobile has started
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
See DetailsThe Falcon 9 first stage B1078 has landed back at the launch site after its 13th flight.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
INFO WIKI
TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile’s first five commercial direct-to-smartphone satellites are ready to be shipped to Cape Canaveral in a few weeks, the company said July 25 in anticipation of a […]
This week’s manifest features up to four Falcon 9 launches, including the highly anticipated Polaris Dawn crewed mission, a mission carrying AST SpaceMobile’s first five cellphone-compatible broadband satellites, and the delayed launch of …
This was the first of the company’s first five commercial satellites for the BlueBird constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 4:52 a.m. EDT (0852 UTC).
SpaceX successfully deployed the first five production satellites for AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-smartphone broadband constellation Sept. 11.
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Note: SpaceX identifies the mission as "Commercial GTO 1". Dror-1 is a geostationary communication satellite built and developed by Israel Aerospa…
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Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Satellite officially named for "space environment detection" purposes, exact details unknown.
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Second of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.
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