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AST SpaceMobile Advances Space-Based Cellular Broadband in Europe in Collaboration with European Mobile Network Operator Partners
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American operators hold ~1,000 MHz of low and mid band spectrum, tunable on the @AST_SpaceMobile network. With our current satellites in orbit and in build, our United States partners will access critical low-band and mid-band spectrum that no one can match!
When combined with the mobile network operators' extensive spectrum assets, and in combination with AST SpaceMobile controlled 45 MHz of L-band spectrum, users will see peak data rates of nearly 200 Mbps from the largest-ever satellites in low Earth orbit.
Together we are making the strongest, most resilient, AI ready networks on the planet. 🇺🇸 🌎📶📱🤠
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To those that are new to story or to those that are here for a cup of coffee, let me tell you what drew many of us to the $ASTS investment in the first place: They could lease the MNOs spectrum and didn’t need their own.
But what about the Ligado transaction? That, in my opinion, was akin to a palace coup. They found a distressed asset that they could monetize when no one else could monetize. They turned water into wine. Ligado is the exception, not the rule.
Let $Spcx buy some low band. Let them build towers. Let them sink billions upon billions of dollars (maybe hundreds of billions of dollars) into a low margin, capital intensive business. They may even win some customers over from the MNOs.
Meanwhile, $ASTS will be the silent partner to ALL the MNOs. It’ll gain access to all their customers. It’ll utilize their spectrum. It’ll have the MNOs handle billing and all those horrible operational expenditures that cripple growing companies. It WILL print money.
Criticize AST for its slow manufacturing cadence. I’m with you on that. But dooming over a tiny slice of spectrum that was never part of the business plan in the first place? Child please.
Now we know why Abel was also at Capital last week, it wasn’t just SEC framework. He is working on making the J-LEO a US-Japan military collaboration!!!
$ASTS @spacanpanman
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$ASTS just picked up a huge geopolitical endorsement as the U.S. and Japan specifically named AST and Rakuten in their Technology Prosperity Deal.
Japan wants sovereign D2C coverage while U.S. wants trusted American infrastructure across allied networks putting AST directly where both priorities meet.
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Another convoy is on the move.
BlueBirds 14, 15, and 16 have left our Texas facility and are on the road to Cape Canaveral.
Next stop: orbit. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
The largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit. A scalable platform to deliver space-based cellular broadband connectivity directly to standard phones, support secure government applications, and deliver a new third layer of connectivity.
In Midland, Texas, production continues to advance through BlueBird 50, with more than 20 spacecraft structures now being integrated as part of our assembly process.
One constellation. Connectivity. Resilience. Security. Built in Texas. 🇺🇸🌎📶📱
#ASTSpaceMobile #Broadband #ConnectingtheUnconnected #BlueBirds
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1 trillion dollars from Trumps dividend plan could do any of the following
-Solve homelessness for 10+ years
- Pay off well over 50% of all student loans
- End US hunger for 5 years
- Double NASA Budget for 35+ years
- Completely update the US power grid
How is this productive?
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Execution in motion.
Across our Texas manufacturing facilities, more BlueBird satellites are moving through every stage of production as we build the world’s first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones.
We invented a new way to design, manufacture and deploy large-scale space infrastructure: advanced lightweight composite structures, stackable architecture and repeatable production at a scale never before achieved for commercial communications satellites.
More BlueBirds. More capacity. More connectivity.
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Build. Stack. Launch. Repeat.
#ASTSpaceMobile #Broadband #ConnectingtheUnconnected #BlueBirds
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$ASTS: 🚨TODAY THE US SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FORMALLY BACKS AST SPACEMOBILE'S STA TO TEST NEW RADIOLOCATION SERVICES OVER 902-928MHz SPECTRUM USING BLUEBIRD SATELLITES IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR
➡️ This builds on the testing AST and the SDA have been doing since June 2026 from a prior STA, so we can assume things are going very, very, very well.
➡️ This is WAY bigger than a routine experimental FCC license. The Space Development Agency is formally asking NTIA/FCC to approve AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird testing because it directly supports an SDA prime contract and an on-orbit demonstration of “commercial-based tactical satellite capabilities.”
➡️ AST plans to use BlueBirds for radiolocation testing over 902–928 MHz spectrum near federal gateway sites in Maryland, Texas, Alabama and Hawaii. SDA says the testing needs to start imminently, is important to its program schedule, and advances a national security objective.
➡️ SDA says these capabilities are of “significant interest” to the Department of War, specifically the Space Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio, and will help evaluate proliferated commercial space architectures for tactical communications AND sensing. BlueBird satellite's largest phased arrays in LEO are being evaluated for radiolocation, sensing, targeting-related missions and tactical communications by the U.S. government.
➡️ Dual use capability --> AST is building a global constellation funded primarily around a massive commercial D2D opportunity, then layering in government/defense missions onto that same infrastructure. Communications. Sensing. Radiolocation. Potential PNT/ISR.
✅ SOVEREIGN CONNECTIVITY AND SENSING
✅ AST is already an SDA subcontractor under an active prime contract and the orbital demonstration is expected to run into 2027.
🔥DEFENSE IS NOT PRICED IN
cc: @jusbar23
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A group of Europe’s biggest mobile operators are in early talks to create a consortium to bid on satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile service, which would rival Elon Musk’s Starlink service on the continent, sources said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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WTF! Look at the scale of the Antonov! Other commercial jets seem like little dwarves compared to it.
What an incredible machine. Of course, you need a massive plane to carry a massive satellite.
And we $ASTS shareholder's know better than anyone that "bigger is better, and we have the biggest!"
3/ With BlueBirds 8-10 already in orbit and 11-13 next in the production queue, these Antonov deliveries into Midland are becoming a regular cadence as AST scales toward its 45-60 satellites in orbit by year-end 2026 target.