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Space-based cellular broadband network provider AST SpaceMobile is the latest special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to go public after it completed its combination with New Providence Acquisition Corp. AST SpaceMobile common stock and warrants will now trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbols ASTS and ASTSW, respectively. Speaking on a webinar hosted by SpaceNews and Quilty Analytics, AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan said the company took the SPAC route to its IPO so that ...

New rocket, Fireflys Alpha, may be ready to launch by April By (0) An illustration shows the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the surface of the moon, which is a mission planned in 2023. Image courtesy Firefly Aerospace ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023. The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth o...

L3Harris leaped from tracking weather to tracking missiles, cracking a competitive field Nathan Strout keyboard_arrow_down An artists depiction of L3Harris tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) WASHINGTON — In January 2017, one of the government’s newest weather satellites picked up the most bizarre signal: a wildfire moving at breaknec...