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Kongsberg NanoAvionicsManufacturer
Kongsberg NanoAvionicsEMISAT
4/1/2019
AST SpaceMobile's SEC filing states BlueWalker 1 was launched on April 1, 2019 to validate the satellite-to-cellular architecture and 4G-LTE protocol handling from LEO.
BlueWalker 1, AST SpaceMobile’s first in-house test satellite, was launched in April 2019 to validate the company’s satellite-to-cellular architecture using the 0.004 kg-LTE protocol.