{"id":53898,"date":"2023-03-06T19:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ast-spacemobile-partners-with-fairwinds-technologies-to-explore-military-use-cases\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T19:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:23:39","slug":"ast-spacemobile-partners-with-fairwinds-technologies-to-explore-military-use-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ast-spacemobile-partners-with-fairwinds-technologies-to-explore-military-use-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile Partners with Fairwinds Technologies to Explore Military Use Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>AST SpaceMobile<\/b> has a new agreement with government contractor<b> Fairwinds Technologies LLC<\/b> to explore opportunities to jointly market AST SpaceMobile\u2019s satellite-to-cell service to the military market. The Monday announcement was light on details but said the companies will explore how AST SpaceMobile\u2019s services and satellite technology could be jointly marketed to military and law enforcement agencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile is working to develop a space-based cellular broadband network. The company\u2019s test satellite is currently in orbit. AST SpaceMobile CCO Chris Ivory said that the company\u2019s space-based cellular broadband network has potential for applications for tactical military communications missions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fairwinds is a U.S. government prime contractor and an approved vendor for various government contract vehicles. The company develops communications solutions for the defense community and public sector agencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFocusing on next-generation and space-based communications technologies that address network resiliency, 4G\/5G competitiveness and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) is vital. AST SpaceMobile\u2019s network is being designed to offer potential solutions for these needs,\u201d commented Tim Hillner, Chief Technology Officer of Fairwinds Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AST SpaceMobile has a new agreement with government contractor Fairwinds Technologies LLC to explore opportunities to jointly market AST SpaceMobile\u2019s satellite-to-cell service to the military market. The Monday announcement was light on details but said the companies will explore how AST SpaceMobile\u2019s services and satellite technology could be jointly marketed to military and law enforcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51198,"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-53898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898"}],"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=53898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}