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Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Starts to Unfold Its Massive Satellites
The company's BlueBird satellites were tightly packed for rocket travel, but AST is now unfurling them with the goal of beaming internet data to consumer phones on the ground.
AST SpaceMobile is now unfurling its first batch of commercial satellites in Earth’s orbit amid heightened competition with SpaceX’s cellular Starlink tech. Last month, the Texas-based company successfully launched all five BlueBird satellites into space, with the goal of delivering high-speed internet to unmodified smartphones on the ground. "At 700 sq ft in area, our BlueBirds are the largest-ever commercial communications arrays in low Earth orbit, specially designed for space-based cellular broadband to everyday smartphones – Size matters!” he said.
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