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NASA Spaceflight • Chris Bergin, William Graham

Proton‑M to return after nearly three years, launching Elektro‑L No.5 on final Blok‑DM mission

Russia's Proton‑M will make its first launch in nearly three years from Baikonur, carrying the fifth Elektro‑L weather satellite (Elektro‑L No.5). The flight is notable as the final mission to use the Blok‑DM upper stage and marks Proton's return to operations.

Also: russianspaceweb.com and tass.com
2026-02-11T18:14:08.888360-08:00
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Business Wire

AST SpaceMobile Completes Deployment of BlueBird-6 — Largest Commercial LEO Array for Direct-to-Cellular Broadband

By Business Wire: AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly ...

2026-02-10T21:21:16.437566-08:00