Blue Walker 3 Satellite Creates First 5G Cellular Broadband Connection

JAKARTA Not long ago, AST SpaceMobile stated that the Blue Walker 3 test satellite which had been in orbit for a year made its first 5G connection. This connection even succeeded in making ordinary smartphones connected to other phones.

Quoted fromSpacenews, this connection proved to exist after the Samsung Galaxy S22 cellphone belonging to an engineer near Hana, Hawaii connected to the satellite on September 8.

The engineer used a connection obtained from Blue Walker 3. The connection was used to chat with other engineers in Madrid, Spain for two minutes.

The success of the Blue Walker 3 satellite shows that the AST SpaceMobile has succeeded in creating the largest commercial communication series ever placed in low-earth orbit.

"We have achieved significant technological advances that represent paradigm changes in access to information," said AST SpaceMobile Chair and CEO Abel Avellan, quoted from Capacitymedia.

This 5G network also made AST SpaceMobile Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski believe there was a further increase from the Blue Walker 3 satellite. He said, "In fact, more performance is expected on our first five commercial satellites."

So far, the download speed that can be obtained from the AST SpaceMobile satellite is 14 megabits per second in separate tests. Their satellite also surpassed the speed of 10 Mbps with 4G network last June.