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<\/p>\nWebcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 6 Mission Live Launch – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n An Indian rocket is scheduled to launch the record-breaking BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite tonight (Dec. 23), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n BlueBird 6, built by Texas company AST SpaceMobile<\/a>, will lift off atop an LVM3 rocket<\/a> from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre tonight at 10:24 p.m. EST (0334 GMT and 8:54 a.m. India Standard Time on Dec. 24), if all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of AST SpaceMobile or directly via the company<\/a>. Coverage will begin about 30 minutes before launch.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \n An Indian LVM3 rocket on the pad ahead of the planned Dec. 23, 2025 launch of the BlueBird 6 satellite for AST SpaceMobile. (Image credit: ISRO)<\/p>\n AST SpaceMobile is building a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO) that beam broadband service directly to standard smartphones on the ground.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The company has launched five operational satellites to date, all of them aboard a single SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket in September 2024<\/a>. Those spacecraft, BlueBirds 1 through 5, feature 693-square-foot (64.4 square meters) communication arrays \u2014 the largest ever unfurled in LEO.<\/p>\n BlueBird 6 will break that record, and by a healthy margin. It’s the first of AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation BlueBirds, whose arrays cover nearly 2,400 square feet (223 square meters) apiece.<\/p>\n Tonight’s liftoff will be the ninth overall for the three-stage, 143-foot-tall (43.5 m) LVM3, which is India’s most powerful rocket. It debuted in December 2014 and has a 100% success rate to date.<\/p>\n BlueBird 6, which tips the scales at about 13,450 pounds (6,100 kilograms), will be the heaviest payload that the LVM3 has ever hauled to LEO, according to<\/a> the Indian Space Research Organisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Webcast: AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 6 Mission Live Launch – YouTube Watch On An Indian rocket is scheduled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-200909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eKjGF9ZzPdntfW8AqKbYKV.jpg\")
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