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A pre-dawn Falcon 9 carried BlueBirds 8, 9 and 10 — AST SpaceMobile's first operational Block 2 satellites, built to beam broadband straight to ordinary 4G and 5G phones — marking the company's pivot from testing toward live direct-to-cell service.
Read the story →SpaceX lofted three Block 2 BlueBird satellites for AST SpaceMobile, expanding a constellation built on the audacious premise that your existing phone can talk directly to orbit.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reached orbit on its first attempt — a significant achievement for a company that spent years being compared unfavorably to SpaceX. But a single successful launch is a beginning, not a business. What comes next will define whether New Glenn becomes a serious player.
Starlink, OneWeb, and their competitors have fundamentally changed the night sky. The question is no longer whether to stop the constellations — it's whether engineering fixes and international regulation can preserve professional astronomy before Vera Rubin comes online.
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