{"id":801847,"date":"2026-04-22T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801847"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:16:32","slug":"ast-spacemobile-to-use-430-mhz-band-for-248-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801847","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile to use 430 MHz band for 248 satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_36170\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36170\" data-attachment-id=\"36170\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2025\/06\/26\/use-of-430-440-mhz-by-ast-spacemobile-constellation\/image-by-pe0sat-of-434-100-mhz-downlink-received-september-12-2024\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-by-pe0sat-of-434.100-mhz-downlink-received-september-12-2024.png\" data-orig-size=\"947,727\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Image by PE0SAT of 434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024 by PE0SAT&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024 by PE0SAT&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-by-pe0sat-of-434.100-mhz-downlink-received-september-12-2024.png?w=593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36170\" src=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-by-pe0sat-of-434.100-mhz-downlink-received-september-12-2024.png?w=300\" alt=\"434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024 by PE0SAT\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-36170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024 by PE0SAT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On April 21, the FCC announced that AST SpaceMobile (AST &amp; Science, LLC) will be using the Amateur 430 MHz band for 248 satellites in its planned Low-Earth-Orbit constellation which aims to provide global cellular broadband communications.<\/p>\n<p>Center frequencies are 430.5 MHz, 432.3 MHz, 434.1 MHz, 435.9 MHz, 439.5 MHz with 50 kHz bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>Read the FCC announcement at <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2026\/04\/22\/ast-spacemobile-to-use-430-mhz-band-for-248-satellites\/?rand=772143\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>434.100 MHz downlink received September 12, 2024 by PE0SAT On April 21, the FCC announced that AST SpaceMobile (AST &amp; Science, LLC) will be using the Amateur 430 MHz band&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}