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AST SpaceMobile Confirms Successful Launch of BlueWalker 3 Into Orbit
Engineers Have Established Communication, Stabilized and Taken Control of the Test Satellite MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nEngineers Have Established Communication, Stabilized and Taken Control of the Test Satellite\n\n MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has confirmed the successful placement of BlueWalker 3 into space.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220913006326/en/AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the successful placement of BlueWalker 3 into space. (Photo: Business Wire)\nThe BlueWalker 3 test satellite successfully launched on Saturday, September 10, 2022, at 9:20 pm EDT from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Engineers made contact with BlueWalker 3 less than an hour after take-off, confirming its trajectory.\n\n\"BlueWalker 3 is on course and securely circling the earth,\" said Scott Wisniewski, Chief Strategy Officer of AST SpaceMobile. \"The satellite is thermally stable and communicating directly with ground stations. Our team is now operating from three global mission control centers, including Maryland, Colorado and Australia, where we are directly receiving data from BlueWalker 3.\"\n\nAST SpaceMobile broadcasted live from launch pad 39A before lifting off, interviewing key partners from American Tower, Vodafone Group and Nokia. Replays of the show’s executive interviews, including Chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile Abel Avellan, can be found on the company’s YouTube page.\n\n“A major achievement in our mission to connect the unconnected has been accomplished,\" said Abel Avellan, Chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile. “We are working hard to ensure that no one becomes a second-class citizen, regardless of where they live or work, because of their lack of access to cellular broadband.”\n\nAST SpaceMobile has a portfolio of more than 2,400 patent- and patent-pending claims supporting its space-based cellular broadband technology, with agreements and understandings with over 25 Mobile Network Operators (\"MNOs\") globally, who collectively provide service to over 1.8 billion subscribers. MNOs in the mission's test plans include Vodafone Group, Rakuten Mobile, AT&T, Orange, and others.\n\nAST SpaceMobile continues preparations for the assembly and production of the next phase of satellites calle...