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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 is setting up sites to test BlueWalker 3 with more than 10 mobile operators globally on all six inhabited continents.
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 is authorized to use three different frequencies with AT&T in the United States for BlueWalker 3 testing.
AST SpaceMobile plans to deploy the first batch of operational BlueBird satellites in late 2023 to begin scaling toward global services.
AST SpaceMobile aims to begin testing BlueWalker 3’s ability to provide 0.004 kg and 0.005 kg connectivity to standard mobile phones a couple of weeks after antenna deployment.
SpaceX launched AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 satellite on 2022-09-10 at 9:20 p.m. ET.
AST SpaceMobile and Lynk are developing satellite constellations intended to provide messaging and eventually voice and data services to unmodified phones.
The first five AST SpaceMobile satellites will be about 1,500 kg each and are half the size of satellites AST SpaceMobile plans to deploy later.
AST SpaceMobile expects to deploy its first set of operational satellites in late 2023.
AST SpaceMobile has an agreement with SpaceX that provides options for booking Falcon 9 or Starship launches until the end of 2024.
AST SpaceMobile had $202,000,000 in cash reserves at the end of June 2022.
AST SpaceMobile’s expected cost for the first 20 BlueBird satellites increased a little over 14% to $16,000,000 per satellite.
AST SpaceMobile reported $35,000,000 in operating expenses during the second quarter of 2022.
AST SpaceMobile earlier planned to deploy 20 full-sized BlueBird satellites in the first two or three quarters of 2023.
AST SpaceMobile’s first five satellites will be 50% smaller than initially planned to avoid further delaying commercial services.
AST SpaceMobile previously outlined plans to deploy 110 satellites before the end of 2024 to achieve substantial global mobile coverage.
AST SpaceMobile has an agreement with SpaceX that provides a framework for ordering additional launches up until the end of 2024.