AST SpaceMobile is a publicly traded satellite designer and manufacturer headquartered in Midland, Texas, focused on building a space-based cellular broadband network. Their SpaceMobile network aims to connect directly to standard, unmodified smartphones via their constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, like the BlueBird series. AST SpaceMobile partners with mobile network operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone to expand cellular coverage and provide connectivity in underserved areas, also securing contracts with the U.S. government for secure and reliable connectivity.
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AST SpaceMobile completed an initial public offering that raised around $417,000,000 a year and a half before November 2022.
AST SpaceMobile plans to connect BlueWalker-3 with a smartphone for the first time during the first quarter of 2023.
Papua New Guinea is managing AST SpaceMobile’s spectrum filings with the ITU and must provide information about BlueWalker-3’s planned climb time under prior launch plans.
AST SpaceMobile plans to ramp up manufacturing in 2023 toward producing six BlueBird satellites per month.
AST SpaceMobile stated in August 2022 that its first five BlueBirds, known as Block 1, will be roughly 50% smaller than initially planned and about the same size and weight as the 1,500-kilogram BlueWalker-3.
AST SpaceMobile had nearly $200,000,000 in cash reserves at the end of September and has enough resources to cover operations for the next 12 months from that date.
AST SpaceMobile had plans to deploy 110 BlueBird satellites before the end of 2024 to reach substantial global mobile coverage.
Luke Ibbetson is Head of Group R&D at Vodafone and serves as an AST SpaceMobile director.
AST SpaceMobile has a portfolio of more than 2,400 patent and patent-pending claims supporting its space-based cellular broadband technology.
AST SpaceMobile expects to deploy its first operational satellites in late 2023.
AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker-3 prototype satellite, which SpaceX launched on 2022-09-10, is slated to unfurl a 64-square-meter antenna in the next couple of weeks to test its ability to bring 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg connectivity to standard mobile phones.
AST SpaceMobile plans to start deploying its first commercial spacecraft in late 2023.
AST SpaceMobile plans to provide 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg capabilities after its first commercial satellites launch in late 2023.
SpaceX launched AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 prototype on 2022-09-10.
AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 prototype is preparing to unfurl what the company describes as the largest commercial antenna ever deployed in low Earth orbit to test planned services.
AST SpaceMobile has agreements and understandings with over 25 Mobile Network Operators globally who collectively provide service to over 1.8 billion subscribers.
AST SpaceMobile has a portfolio of more than 2,400 patent- and patent-pending claims supporting its space-based cellular broadband technology.
AST SpaceMobile is operating from three global mission control centers in Maryland, Colorado, and Australia that are directly receiving data from BlueWalker 3.
AST SpaceMobile plans to test voice and video applications with the BlueWalker 3 prototype under an experimental license from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
AST SpaceMobile plans to deploy the first batch of operational BlueBird satellites in late 2023 to begin scaling toward global services.