{"id":1047940,"date":"2026-11-09T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047940"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:13:25","slug":"firefly-inks-1-3-billion-deal-to-supply-engines-for-new-ast-spacemobile-blacklift-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/firefly-inks-1-3-billion-deal-to-supply-engines-for-new-ast-spacemobile-blacklift-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly inks $1.3 billion deal to supply engines for new AST SpaceMobile &#8216;Blacklift&#8217; rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Firefly Aerospace will supply core engines for a new rocket under development by satellite communications firm AST SpaceMobile in a $1.3 billion deal, underscoring a push among satellite companies to secure dependable access to space.<\/p>\n<p>The engine deal, announced on Friday, is a key part of new plans by AST SpaceMobile to develop its own rocket named Blacklift as it races to deploy a satellite constellation for global cellular broadband service and wean itself off a reliance on third-party rockets like SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Firefly Aerospace will supply core engines for a new rocket under development by satellite communications firm AST SpaceMobile in a $1.3 billion deal, underscoring a push among satellite companies to secure dependable access to space. The engine deal, announced on Friday, is a key part of new plans by AST SpaceMobile to develop its own rocket named Blacklift as it races to deploy a satellite constellation for global cellular broadband service and wean itself off a reliance on third-party rockets like SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1047940","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\/1047940","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047959,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047940\/revisions\/1047959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}