Launched AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 8, 9 and 10 next-generation direct-to-cell satellites to low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, expanding the company's space-based cellular broadband service for standard unmodified smartphones.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 17.6 T
- Flight
- 595th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 17 June 2026, 06:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2026-139
- Launches in 2026
- 145th of 243
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