{"id":47280,"date":"2026-03-31T01:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/live-in-the-booth-ast-spacemobile-president-scott-wisniewski-talks-spectrum-strategy-and-defense-potential\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:56:19","slug":"live-in-the-booth-ast-spacemobile-president-scott-wisniewski-talks-spectrum-strategy-and-defense-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/live-in-the-booth-ast-spacemobile-president-scott-wisniewski-talks-spectrum-strategy-and-defense-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in the Booth: AST SpaceMobile President Scott Wisniewski Talks Spectrum Strategy and Defense Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this \u201cLive in the Booth\u201d interview during SATShow Week, <strong>AST SpaceMobile<\/strong> President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski talks about the recently launched BlueBird 6 satellite, the company\u2019s recent agreement with Orange, and AST SpaceMobile\u2019s spectrum strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wisniewski also talks about how AST SpaceMobile sees opportunity for its technology in the defense space. The company recently won the first Space Development Agency (SDA) award for the Europa effort to demonstrate low-latency tactical satellite communications using the company\u2019s commercial spacecraft. While the company\u2019s direct-to-device business is designed around the commercial application and partnership with mobile network operators, Wisniewski believes defense could be a billion-dollar business over the long term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defense market has made a lot of sense over the last couple of years as we\u2019ve deployed network and they\u2019ve seen what this kind of brand new architecture can do. When you have a large array in Low Earth Orbit, it facilitates a number of communications and non communications use cases,\u201d Wisniewski said. \u201cThe vision that we\u2019ve painted is one where we have up to 10 different use cases of communications and non-communications, each of which could be a future program of record for the U.S. government.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Via Satellite<\/em> editors Rachel Jewett and Mark Holmes interviewed Wisniewski as part of the \u201cLive in the Booth\u201d series during SATShow Week on March 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this \u201cLive in the Booth\u201d interview during SATShow Week, AST SpaceMobile President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski talks about the recently launched BlueBird 6 satellite, the company\u2019s recent agreement with Orange, and AST SpaceMobile\u2019s spectrum strategy.&nbsp; Wisniewski also talks about how AST SpaceMobile sees opportunity for its technology in the defense space. The [&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":[],"class_list":["post-47280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280"}],"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=47280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}