{"id":199844,"date":"2024-11-20T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ast-spacemobile-selects-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-to-deliver-next-generation-bluebird-satellites-to-space"},"modified":"2024-11-20T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:26:33","slug":"ast-spacemobile-selects-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-to-deliver-next-generation-bluebird-satellites-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/ast-spacemobile-selects-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-to-deliver-next-generation-bluebird-satellites-to-space","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile Selects Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn Rocket to Deliver Next-Generation BlueBird Satellites to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ast-spacemobile-selects-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-to-deliver-next-generation-bluebird-satellites-to-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin today announced a multi-launch agreement to deliver multiple next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on New Glenn. All launches will occur over a multi-year period from Blue Origin\u2019s Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed for both commercial and government applications. It will operate directly with everyday smartphones and allow seamless switching between terrestrial cell towers and satellite signals depending on location and coverage needs.<\/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 said Abel Avellan, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, AST SpaceMobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin today announced a multi-launch agreement to deliver multiple next-generation Block 2 BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on New Glenn. All launches will occur over a multi-year period from Blue Origin\u2019s Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}