ISRO’s ‘Baahubali’ LVM3-M6 Launches BlueBird 6 (BlueBird Block-2) for AST SpaceMobile, Setting a New Heaviest-Payload Record — Dec. 24, 2025
India’s LVM3-M6 rocket launched from Sriharikota on December 24, 2025, deploying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 6, the heaviest payload yet for LVM3, into a 520 km Low Earth Orbit. Liftoff was delayed by 90 seconds due to a conjunction risk. BlueBird 6 features a 223 m² phased-array, the largest of its kind in LEO, and is designed to connect directly to standard smartphones.