{"id":505361,"date":"2026-06-18T03:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:05:16","slug":"ast-spacemobile-announces-successful-launch-of-more-bluebird-d2d-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505361\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile announces successful launch of more Bluebird D2D satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        AST SpaceMobile announces successful launch of more Bluebird D2D satellites<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-abstract line-clamp-2\" data-v-1e217f04=\"\">\n        AST SpaceMobile has announced the successful orbital launch of its BlueBird 8, 9 and 10 satellites. They lifted off on 17 June from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. They are the largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO), measuring approximately 223 m2, and will be used to support direct-to-device mobile satellite services with its operator partners.\u00a0\u00a0\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile announces successful launch of more Bluebird D2D satellites AST SpaceMobile has announced the successful orbital launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-505361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}