AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 1-5 Satellite Mission Launches from Florida

Relive the historic launch of AST SpaceMobile’s first five commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral, FL, on September 12, 2024 at 4:52 a.m. EDT. Watch as the five BlueBird satellites — spacecraft which will be the largest-ever communications arrays deployed in low Earth orbit, and able to directly connect mobile phones to cellular broadband — are encapsulated in a Falcon 9 rocket fairing, rolled out to Space Launch Complex-40 (LC-40), launched at nearly 17,000 mph, separated from their launch vehicle in space, and begin their mission to connect the unconnected.