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Dec 24, 2025 12:00 PM

AST SpaceMobile Sends Its Biggest Satellite Ever To Orbit

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTS) on Wednesday disclosed the deployment of the largest commercial communications array ever installed in low Earth orbit.

The BlueBird 6 satellite successfully lifted off at 10:25 p.m. EST on Dec. 23 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, deploying the largest commercial communications array ever installed in low Earth orbit.

The spacecraft spans nearly 2,400 square feet, making it about three times larger than AST SpaceMobile’s earlier BlueBird satellites and offering ten times the capacity of the company’s six satellites currently in orbit.

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