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Largest Commercial Satellites Unfurl, Outshining Most of the Night Sky


Largest Commercial Satellites Unfurl, Outshining Most of the Night Sky The dawn of annoyingly massive satellites is upon us, shielding our views of the shimmering cosmos. Five of the largest communication satellites just unfolded in Earth orbit, and this is only the beginning of a Texas startup’s constellation of cellphone towers in space. AST SpaceMobile announced today that its first five satellites, BlueBirds 1 to 5, unfolded to their full size in space. Each satellite unfurled the largest ever commercial communications array to be deployed in low Earth orbit, stretching across 693 square feet (64 square meters) when unfolded.   More



(Source: Gizmodo - Oct 28)

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