Launched the first five commercial BlueBird Block 1 satellites for AST SpaceMobile from Cape Canaveral, each unfolding a 693-square-foot antenna array, the largest commercial communications arrays in low Earth orbit, for direct-to-smartphone broadband service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.5 T
- Flight
- 316th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 12 September 2024, 08:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2024-163
- Launches in 2024
- 168th of 263
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