ITU
ITU filings
Public records that name an AST SpaceMobile ITU satellite-network filing. BR IFIC numbers appear only when a public document cites them. ITU SNS and SpaceExplorer were not opened; both require a TIES login. A missing field means the source did not state it.
2024-08-02 · USA · Type not stated
Accompanying U.S. filing (network name not stated)
On 12 Mar 2024 AST said it had updated its constellation filing with the ITU, and related V-band FCC filings, so the licensing administration would be the United States. On 2 Aug 2024 the FCC’s partial grant said AST had submitted materials supporting an accompanying ITU filing to the United States, and that the Commission had found those materials acceptable to submit to the ITU. The grant conditions require AST to prepare the information needed to initiate and complete advance publication, coordination, due diligence, and notification. Neither document names the network, a publication type, a BR IFIC number, or the notice’s frequency list.
- Frequency bands
- Not stated in the source
- Orbit
- Not stated in the source
- Satellites
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- The FCC found AST’s materials acceptable to submit to the ITU. No BR IFIC publication of a U.S. network was identified in the sources opened for this review.
Release date of FCC order DA-24-756. AST’s announcement that it had updated the ITU constellation filing is dated 12 Mar 2024.
2023-10-27 · PNG · Type not stated
MICRONSAT
Papua New Guinea told the Board that the satellite had been tested and was operating at 500 km rather than being raised to the notified 700 km, so the force-majeure basis for an extension no longer applied. The minutes also say the satellite was operating under a second Papua New Guinea filing that contained orbits at both 500 and 700 km. That second network is not named.
- Frequency bands
- Not stated in the source
- Orbit
- The minutes describe the notified altitude as 700 km and say the satellite was kept at 500 km.
- Satellites
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Papua New Guinea withdrew its request to extend the regulatory time-limit to bring the MICRONSAT assignments into use. The Board noted the withdrawal. The minutes do not describe a grant of the extension.
Last day of the 94th Radio Regulations Board meeting (23–27 Oct 2023). The minutes are dated 10 Nov 2023. The withdrawal document is dated 9 Oct 2023.
2020-07-07 · PNG · Notification · BR IFIC 2924
MICRONSAT
A Japanese ministry note on Rakuten Mobile’s planned use of the SpaceMobile system identifies the feeder-link publication as MICRONSAT, Part II-S, BR IFIC No. 2924. The note does not reproduce the notice. The system table in that note uses about 700 km and 168 satellites; it does not say those figures are the contents of this IFIC.
- Frequency bands
- Japan’s ministry note calls this the Q/V feeder-link notification. The same note lists candidate feeder ranges of 37.5–42.5 GHz and 45.5–47.0 / 47.2–50.2 GHz for a sharing study. Those ranges are the study’s, not a reproduction of the IFIC frequency list.
- Orbit
- Not stated in the source
- Satellites
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Cited by Japan’s MIC as a Part II-S publication.
BR IFIC date cited by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: BR IFIC No. 2924 / 07.07.2020.
2020-05-26 · PNG · API · BR IFIC 2921
MICRONSAT
In its 13 Apr 2020 U.S. market-access petition, AST said MICRONSAT API MOD-2 was still in the ITU backlog. Japan’s MIC later cited the published special section API/A/12171 MOD-2 in BR IFIC 2921. An FCC experimental technical annex dated 31 Aug 2021 says BlueWalker 3 would operate under the MICRONSAT filings made by Papua New Guinea.
- Frequency bands
- Japan’s note calls API/A/12171 MOD-2 the service-link publication and associates it with LTE, including Band 3. It does not reproduce the notice’s frequency list. The frequencies Japan planned to use in that study were 1730–1750 MHz and 1825–1845 MHz.
- Orbit
- Not stated in the source
- Satellites
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Cited by Japan’s MIC as a published API special section.
BR IFIC date cited by Japan’s MIC: Special Section API/A/12171 MOD-2, BR IFIC No. 2921 / 26.05.2020.
2020-04-13 · PNG · Type not stated
MICRONSAT
AST told the FCC it had worked through Papua New Guinea and had filed: MICRONSAT API; API MOD-1; API MOD-2 (then in the backlog); CR; CR MOD-1; CR MOD-2; CR MOD-3 (then in the backlog); and a notification for the S and Q/V bands of the API and API MOD-1. The same petition describes a proposed 243-satellite constellation in 16 planes at about 700 km. It does not assign that count or altitude to each notice. Two of the names in this list, API MOD-2 and a Q/V notification, are also cited with BR IFIC numbers in the later rows.
- Frequency bands
- Not stated in the source
- Orbit
- Not stated in the source
- Satellites
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Listed by AST to the FCC. The petition does not give a BR IFIC number for any of these notices.
Date of AST’s U.S. market-access petition. The petition does not give an ITU receipt date for each notice.
Source pending
- The Radio Regulations Board minutes say the satellite was operating under a second Papua New Guinea filing with orbits at both 500 and 700 km. The minutes do not name that network, its filing type, its BR IFIC number, or its frequency bands. Per the minutes, source pending.
- DA-24-756 and AST’s 12 Mar 2024 release say the licensing administration was being aligned with the United States. Neither source names the U.S. satellite network, an API, coordination, or notification publication, or a BR IFIC number. Per those documents, source pending.
- ITU SNS and SpaceExplorer require a TIES login. Receipt dates and BR IFIC numbers for the April 2020 list, other than API/A/12171 MOD-2 (IFIC 2921) and the Part II-S notification (IFIC 2924) as cited by Japan’s MIC, were not opened. Source pending.
Last reviewed 2026-11-14. Sources are linked beside the claims they support.