AST SpaceMobile Inc., which aims to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the nascent market for space-based cellular service to mobile phones, has signed contracts with Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin and at least one other unnamed provider to launch dozens of its satellites into orbit.
The Midland, Texas-based company will use Blue Origin’s forthcoming New Glenn and existing vehicles to loft as many as 60 of its Block 2 satellites to low-Earth orbit over the next two years, the company said in a statement Thursday.
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