According to the statement, the giant satellite launched into low earth orbit BlueWalker 3one of the brightest objects in the sky happened.
According to research done BlueWalker 3 It is the eighth brightest star currently visible from Earth. procyon (The brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor) because it has a large body area of 64 square meters and therefore the capacity to reflect light. While only the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and seven stars are said to be brighter than BlueWalker 3, this high brightness and visibility does not particularly please astronomers. Because such objects can seriously damage sky surveys. AST SpaceMobile and BlueWalker 3 It’s not the first time it’s come up. Last month standard smart phone Announced to have built the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible via AST SpaceMobilea standard, unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22 Using the model, voice via special satellite (Phone call) and successfully implemented the first data-based 5G connection. Here, company engineers used AT&T’s network and AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite (Still in prototype stage for a larger satellite network), which enables call transfer from the USA to a Vodafone engineer in Spain. established a space/satellite-based 5G connection. In a separate test, the company managed to break a speed record for a space-based cellular broadband data session by reaching a download speed of approximately 14 Mbps. partnered with Vodafone and Nokia for this test. AST SpaceMobile, gave a good indication for the future. Thanks to this and similar systems, we will be able to communicate wherever we go in the future, and we will not be as dependent on ground base stations as before.