{"id":54751,"date":"2022-09-13T00:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ast-spacemobile-blue-walker-3-satellite-reaches-orbit\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T00:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:46:06","slug":"ast-spacemobile-blue-walker-3-satellite-reaches-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ast-spacemobile-blue-walker-3-satellite-reaches-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile Blue Walker 3 Satellite Reaches Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>AST SpaceMobile<\/b> test satellite, BlueWalker 3 has reached orbit after SpaceX launched the satellite on Saturday. The anticipated satellite test AST SpaceMobile\u2019s satellite direct-to-cell technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched BlueWalker 3 along with a batch of 34 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Sunday evening. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at&nbsp; 9:20 p.m from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlueWalker 3 is comfortably roaming around the globe, thermally stable and communicating with our ground stations!\u201d AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan confirmed on Twitter after the launch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BlueWalker 3 has the largest commercial phased array ever deployed to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), at 693 square feet. After the satellite is operational, it will perform direct-to-phone in-orbit testing with AST SpaceMobile\u2019s mobile network operator partners including Vodafone, Rakuten Mobile, and Orange.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This launch compes as there is increasing momentum around cellular direct-to-satellite connectivity. SpaceX recently announced that the second generation of Starlink satellites will be able to connect T-Mobile\u2019s subscribers in remote locations to fill gaps in T-Mobile\u2019s network, and Apple announced last week that the iPhone 14 will be able to send emergency messages via satellite using Globalstar connectivity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AST SpaceMobile test satellite, BlueWalker 3 has reached orbit after SpaceX launched the satellite on Saturday. The anticipated satellite test AST SpaceMobile\u2019s satellite direct-to-cell technology.&nbsp; SpaceX launched BlueWalker 3 along with a batch of 34 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Sunday evening. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at&nbsp; 9:20 p.m from Launch Complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54752,"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-54751","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\/54751"}],"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=54751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}