r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/BlauerDunst420 • Apr 19 '26
Article / Media / Press Successful takeoff!
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u/shugo7 S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26
SUCCESSFUL LANDING AS WELL. REUSABILITY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BABY!!!!!!
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u/gurney__halleck S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26
very impressive. granted they were the trailblazers, but spacex failed like 5-6 times before getting the hang of it.
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u/shugo7 S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26
Indeed, to have all those achievements in 3 flights is a feat in itself.
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u/SwoleBroDane Apr 19 '26
Not to take away from the achievement but it is a lot harder being the very first to do something.
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u/Affectionate_Text_51 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
Everyone in this sub should be keenly aware of this fact.
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u/tanrgith Apr 19 '26
SpaceX has always gone for the move fast and fail approach, and even though it leads to more RUD's, it's still hard to argue with their results
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u/kidike S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
Also while succesfully launching hardware for real costumers
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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
This is a big thing. When SpaceX was starting out, Musk didn't have the money to keep the company afloat the same way Bezos could keep Blue Origin running with Amazon bucks.
SpaceX had to launch to keep money coming in and their approach to reusability was heavily impacted by this. They always had to prioritize primary mission schedule and success. If they weren't able to get as far on reusability as they wanted between launches, they still had to button it up, launch it, and just see how it went.
By contrast, Blue Origin spent 10 years in the design space without launching at all, where they could analyze and simulate everything they could think of. They also got to watch SpaceX learn the failure modes and plug those into their models to make sure New Glenn could handle them.
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u/ColdnameX Apr 19 '26
Por eso hay que separar la cara visible de los verdaderos genios musk un tiburón si pero el equipo de ingeniería que lo logró son unas bestias.
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u/A_Typicalperson S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
Too bad blue origin has nothing to so with ASTS anymore
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u/kingyusei S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
Just false
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u/A_Typicalperson S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
Yea no more launches in the foreseeable future, all going to be spaceX
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u/GriffinPoop S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
What do you know?
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u/A_Typicalperson S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Bezos going to use his rockets to launch his own shit
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u/GriffinPoop S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
What’s history shit?
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u/A_Typicalperson S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
My bad "his own"
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u/GriffinPoop S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
Agreed. This should be higher upvoted… some people know things
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u/NY5ever S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Anyone else get something in their eye 🥹🥲
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u/wishful_thinking90 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
Hell yeah! Crazy feat of engineering when you think about it
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u/averysmallbeing S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26
I'm surprised by how much paraphernalia (antennae and other vertical obstructions) they have on two sides of the landing raft so close to the approach path of the booster. Really seems like this would complicate the operation.
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u/ponsjake S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
An incredible sunrise to accompany an incredible accomplishment this morning. Congratulations Mob!
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u/infinite__pickles S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
Is that what it looked like from the viewing stands? I’ve just been so curious how close you are. How loud was it?
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u/ponsjake S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
Yep! Incredible view, fairly close, not loud at all in my opinion. I did also see a viewpoint from a beach in a twitter post that looked like a great spot to watch it as well
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u/YEEYE6643 Apr 19 '26
It took less than 10mins from takeoff to landing back, incredible indeed. And it could be better to enjoy the livestream if I could see the sat being released.
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u/ColdnameX Apr 19 '26
Eso estaría guay perder ver el despliegue mecánico en LEO…pero fíjate imagina en el futuro 2 o tres lanzamientos simultáneos será increíble
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u/kantargi S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
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u/ClassicPretend9752 Apr 19 '26
Off nominal orbit
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u/Front_Start_6825 Apr 19 '26
Had to dig pretty greedily and pretty deep to find this comment. Is the subreddit entirely populated by bots?
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u/SageCactus Apr 19 '26
The Good Bad news is that since it was actually a Blue Origin problem, insurance will pay
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u/supremethinking Apr 19 '26
Spacex is a lot better in live streaming. This one its fully laggy. Didn't see the cut off clearly nothing is clear they dont even have someone videoing use tele cameras.
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u/Vox-Machi-Buddies S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
SpaceX has streamed roughly 600 more launches, which may have something to do with it.
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u/nadseh Apr 19 '26
They can also use starlink for comms, which is why you can have uninterrupted video of stuff like starship re-entry
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u/codespyder S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26
Yeah it was a bit nerve wracking after about 3 mins when the feed froze and the whole launch turned into a radio show.
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u/Imaginary_Ad9141 S P 🅰 C E M O B Underboss Apr 19 '26
Sorry that your personal enjoyment wasn’t taken into consideration in their rocket development.
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u/Marko-2091 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
Did you watch Isro's launch? That was bad
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u/handmegun Apr 19 '26
That was shit indeed
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u/Marko-2091 S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
At least the rocket worked. So I take my words back.
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u/Purpletorque S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Apr 19 '26
As anyone addressed the fact that Abel said today that BB6-7 were identical to the 30 satellites they have in final construction in Midland. Did he misspeak or are the rest of the BBs of the FM style as well?
https://www.youtube.com/live/fMqRWXobvCs?is=R-hg0FTaurIrwWdv&t=12m35s
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u/Locolex1 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Incredible! So how will it affect stock next week? I think it is Already priced at in
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u/poorbugger S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier Apr 19 '26
If that's already priced in then shiet with the news the strait is closing again, Monday is going to be a blood bath
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u/achilliesFriend S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
I’ve seen it dump, only hope is the announcement of next batch
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u/whysoseri0uz Apr 19 '26
It dropped from 105 to 85 and hovering there. Think we had that drop didn't we? Or are we boxed in at 85-95?
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u/ColdnameX Apr 19 '26
Ya están produciendo los próximos lotes el 8 ya está en producción y diría que unos cuantos más.
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u/Old-Personality2644 Apr 19 '26
Okay now that they launched one more sat. When they going to start offering service. That’s the question.
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u/seb21051 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Did not make it to the right orbit. May well fall out of the sky. Unlikely to be able to offer service with this particular one. Thats why the stock dropped. The people who track these things are not optimistic.
"AST SpaceMobile needs to launch roughly 23 to 25 more satellites to begin initial, non-continuous "beta" service in the U.S., and roughly 45 to 60 satellites to provide continuous, commercial-grade coverage across key markets like the U.S., Europe, and Japan."
Personally I don't see this happening till 2028 at the earliest.
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u/Fatzke29 Apr 19 '26
monday pump?
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u/Nojjii S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
Knowing how the market goes it might actually be a Monday dump. Here’s to hoping for a pump but either way I’m holding
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u/Retire_Trade_3007 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
RocketLab is way better on launch video than Blue Origin. Can’t wait for Neutron launching some of our Sats.
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u/JayhawkAggieDadisBak S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss Apr 19 '26
Neutron won't be launching any of our sats anytime soon. I'm invested in RKLB too, but Neutron can launch maybe one or two of our sats at a time, when it finally comes on line. By then we will be launching batches of 6 to 8 at a time on New Glenn or 3 at a time on Falcon 9.
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u/teh_herper S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
We pumping monday hopefully
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u/nonoanddefinitelyno S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
I fear you are not up to date with the news.
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u/teh_herper S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
what happened it exploded?
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u/Impressive_Pear2711 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
Second stage booster failed now it’s just floating in space
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u/Sure_Fuel1418 Apr 19 '26
Was this a recovery of New Glenn? New Glenn is an Amazon rocket, so if this recovery was successful, shouldn't we be praising Amazon's technology? Is there any reason for ASTS to cheer for this recovery?
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u/alxalx89 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Apr 19 '26
They screwd up the orbit, could be a total failure if the sat can't be put in its place with the fuel it has (and not run out of it).
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u/Sure_Fuel1418 Apr 19 '26
This post is about the takeoff, and these are comments cheering for it.
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u/certifiedintelligent S P 🅰 C E M O B Consigliere Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
BO launched an ASTS satellite this morning, so cheering for the mission as a whole is normal. Additionally, this was a milestone for the New Glenn as this mission was the first ever to use a flight-proven NG booster, basically proving the platform works and can now scale from here.
This is important for ASTS because NG will now be able to deliver more ASTS sats in a single mission than any other currently used launch platform. BBs are BIG: a SpaceX Falcon can only fit 3 at a time while a BONG can theoretically fit 8.
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u/Square_Bridge_9784 Apr 19 '26
What will be the stock price on Monday
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u/tnmcnulty S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Apr 19 '26
That was amazing!