{"id":17157,"date":"2024-11-14T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ast-spacemobile-chooses-blue-origins-new-glenn-rockets-for-satellite-launches\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:29:00","slug":"ast-spacemobile-chooses-blue-origins-new-glenn-rockets-for-satellite-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ast-spacemobile-chooses-blue-origins-new-glenn-rockets-for-satellite-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile chooses Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rockets for satellite launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-630x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-849000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-630x424.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-1260x848.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-1536x1033.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/241114-ast-2048x1378.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">An artist\u2019s conception shows AST SpaceMobile\u2019s Bluebird satellites in orbit. (AST SpaceMobile Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile plans to use Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket to launch some of the satellites for its space-based cellular broadband network in 2025 and 2026.<\/p>\n<p>New Glenn has been under development at Jeff Bezos\u2019 privately held space venture for more than a decade. Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin says the orbital-class rocket\u2019s first launch is \u201con track\u201d to take place this year at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Texas-based AST SpaceMobile is one of several satellite companies that have struck deals for New Glenn launches in advance of the rocket\u2019s first mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Glenn\u2019s performance and unprecedented capacity within its seven-meter fairing enables us to deploy more of our Block 2 BlueBird satellites in orbit, helping provide continuous cellular broadband service coverage across some of the most in-demand cellular markets globally,\u201d Abel Avellan, AST SpaceMobile\u2019s founder, chairman and CEO, said in a news release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to support AST SpaceMobile\u2019s deployment of their next-generation BlueBird satellites, which will expand connectivity across the globe and positively impact many lives,\u201d Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said. \u201cNew Glenn is purpose-built for these kinds of innovative and ambitious missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile\u2019s BlueBird network is designed to operate directly with everyday smartphones and allow seamless switching between terrestrial cell towers and satellite signals, depending on location and coverage needs. The company\u2019s strategic investors include AT&amp;T, Verizon, Google and Vodafone, and it\u2019s said to have agreements with more than 45 mobile network operators globally.<\/p>\n<p>The Block 2 BlueBirds have communications arrays that cover as much as 2,400 square feet when they\u2019re unfolded, which would make them the largest commercial satellites ever deployed in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AST SpaceMobile: Connecting Humanity With Space-Based Cellular Broadband\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GO9-SBCq8oY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile plans to use New Glenn as well as SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket and India\u2019s GSLV rocket to deploy up to 60 satellites in the 2025-2026 time frame. Thanks to New Glenn\u2019s super-sized fairing, each Blue Origin launch could send as many as eight Block 2 BlueBirds to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now contractually secured orbital launch capacity during 2025 and 2026 to enable continuous cellular broadband service coverage of the AST SpaceMobile network,\u201d the company\u2019s president, Scott Wisniewski, said in a news release. He said AST Space Mobile was \u201cwell-positioned\u201d to reach its goal of providing service to hundreds of millions of users around the world, and to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile faces competition in the low-Earth-orbit satellite telecom market from SpaceX\u2019s Starlink network (which has a cellular deal with T-Mobile) and Eutelsat\u2019s OneWeb network. Next year, Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper network is due to join the fray. For what it\u2019s worth, Project Kuiper also has reserved New Glenn rockets, and SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rockets have been tasked with sending up satellites for Starlink, Kuiper and OneWeb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows AST SpaceMobile\u2019s Bluebird satellites in orbit. (AST SpaceMobile Illustration) AST SpaceMobile plans to use Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket to launch some of the satellites for its space-based cellular broadband network in 2025 and 2026. New Glenn has been under development at Jeff Bezos\u2019 privately held space venture for more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[575,509,510,20,4336,442],"class_list":["post-17157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ast-spacemobile","tag-blue-origin","tag-new-glenn","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-broadband","tag-satellites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}