{"id":227908,"date":"2025-12-27T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/starlink-rival-launches-its-largest-satellite-yet-for-space-based-cellular-network"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T19:06:02","slug":"starlink-rival-launches-its-largest-satellite-yet-for-space-based-cellular-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/starlink-rival-launches-its-largest-satellite-yet-for-space-based-cellular-network","title":{"rendered":"Starlink Rival Launches Its Largest Satellite Yet for Space-Based Cellular Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starlink-rival-launches-its-largest-satellite-yet-for-space-based-cellular-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this week\u2019s launch, the company is poised to compete with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink in beaming connectivity from space.<\/p>\n<p><b>Size does matter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spacex-bluewalker-3-falcon-9-1849519022\">launched its first satellite, BlueWalker 3, in September 2022<\/a> to test its ability to establsih cellphone towers in space. A year later, the company used its prototype satellite to <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ast-spacemobile-bluewalker-satellite-5g-connectivity-1850858508\">carry out the first 5G phone call from space<\/a> to a regular Samsung Galaxy S22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this week\u2019s launch, the company is poised to compete with SpaceX\u2019s Starlink in beaming connectivity from space. Size does matter AST SpaceMobile launched its first satellite, BlueWalker 3, in September 2022 to test its ability to establsih cellphone towers in space. A year later, the company used its prototype satellite to carry out the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227908","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}