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AST SpaceMobile Launches Its Most Powerful Direct-to-Cell Satellite


The first of its next-generation BlueBird satellites is now in orbit. But the Starlink rival, backed by AT&T, Verizon, and others, needs approximately 40 more satellites to launch US service.

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