{"id":1027939,"date":"2026-08-11T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027939"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:45:41","slug":"ast-spacemobile-posts-wider-quarterly-loss-after-bluebird-7-satellite-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/ast-spacemobile-posts-wider-quarterly-loss-after-bluebird-7-satellite-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile posts wider quarterly loss after BlueBird 7 satellite incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AST SpaceMobile on Monday reported a wider second-quarter net loss, hurt by a one-time charge related to the loss of its BlueBird 7 satellite. <\/p>\n<p>The company is developing a satellite constellation designed to provide broadband connectivity directly to standard, everyday smartphones, in partnership \u200cwith operators \u2060such \u2060as AT&amp;T and Verizon. <\/p>\n<p>AST&#8217;s shares fell \u200b2% in after-market trading. <\/p>\n<p>The company faced a $125.9 million one-time charge \u200btied to an April launch mishap that led to the de-orbiting of its BlueBird 7 satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AST SpaceMobile on Monday reported a wider second-quarter net loss, hurt by a one-time charge related to the loss of its BlueBird 7 satellite. The company is developing a satellite constellation designed to provide broadband connectivity directly to standard, everyday smartphones, in partnership \u200cwith operators \u2060such \u2060as AT&amp;T and Verizon. AST&#8217;s shares fell \u200b2% in after-market trading. The company faced a $125.9 million one-time charge \u200btied to an April launch mishap that led to the de-orbiting of its BlueBird 7 satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027940,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027939\/revisions\/1027940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}