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AST SpaceMobile has said its Block 2 batch is needed to provide coverage to the most commercially attractive markets.
AST SpaceMobile plans to launch 20 Block 2 satellites later in 2024 that would be 50% larger than the Block 1 satellites.
AST SpaceMobile requires Block 2 to provide coverage to the most commercially attractive MNO markets.
AST SpaceMobile initially aimed to raise up to $74,800,000 when it first announced plans for a share sale on 2022-11-29 but upsized the target following investor demand.
AST SpaceMobile’s shares trended downward after news in August that supply chain issues delayed the launch of its first operational satellite by about six months to late 2023.
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.
AST SpaceMobile had plans to deploy 110 BlueBird satellites before the end of 2024 to reach substantial global mobile coverage.
AST’s BlueWalker 3 prototype, launched on 2022-09-10, carries a 64-square-meter antenna that is the largest commercial antenna ever deployed to low Earth orbit.
AST SpaceMobile expects to deploy its first operational satellites in late 2023.
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.
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 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.
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 delayed the launch of the first operational satellite in its cellphone-compatible broadband constellation by about six months to late 2023.
AST SpaceMobile previously outlined plans to deploy 110 satellites before the end of 2024 to achieve substantial global mobile coverage.
AST SpaceMobile intends to launch a low Earth orbit constellation of BlueBird satellites to provide cellular broadband from space across the globe on land, at sea, and in the air.