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We are done waiting. We are on to satellite 51 - the largest spacecrafts ever in LEO! and we are not stopping. Blacklift: built for BlueBird, built to fly!. Join me at the unveiling webcast event on Thursday, November 12 investors.ast-science.com/ 🤠🇺🇸

Successful launch… again!🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 🚀🚀 🚀 Our DC team in full comms with BlueBirds 11, 12, and 13 within minutes, and just confirmed full Nominal Operations. BlueBirds 14, 15, and 16 to follow soon after, with production underway in Texas through spacecraft 42. We now have ~20,000 sq ft of combined aperture hardware in Space! Bigger is better and we have the biggest!!! Beta service around the corner! 🤠 🇺🇸🌎📶📱

BlueBirds 8, 9, and 10 are now fully deployed to their full size, each the world's largest communications arrays operating in Low Earth Orbit. We invented a new way to design, manufacture at scale, deploy, and fly lightweight composite stackable architecture combined, with the world's largest and most advanced direct- to-device and radar phased-array with the ability to launch them in groups of 3, 5, 6, or 8 on a single launch. Our BlueBird platform brings together high-performance space-based cellular broadband with peak data rates approaching 200 Mbps, space AI edge computing, and many mission-critical government applications, all on one platform where the largest-ever size matters! BlueBirds 11, 12 and 13 are already at the Cape preparing for their imminent launch. BlueBirds 14, 15 and 16 are right behind them. Production has already moved through satellite 42. All of this is happening in Texas. 🤠🇺🇸📶🌎📱

$ASTS: 🚨 AST SPACEMOBILE IS ANTICIPATED TO PARTNER WITH GRAIN MANAGEMENT TO DEPLOY NATIONWIDE 7 MHz UP + 7 MHz DOWN 800 MHz LOW-BAND SPECTRUM The 800 MHz licenses that Grain is acquiring (817–824 MHz paired with 862–869 MHz)—a valuable source of paired, broadband-ready, low-band spectrum have been underutilized in recent years. Final selection of D2D partner is due by year end. No, it can’t be Starlink because Starlink isn’t compatible with low band and will not meet the buildout requirements in the required timelines. Starlink uses mid band.

$ASTS:🚨🇯🇵 RAKUTEN-LED GROUP SET FOR SUBSIDIES TO BUILD JAPAN'S ANSWER TO STARLINK - NIKKEI Government readies $900m in support for homegrown satellite-to-mobile access TOKYO -- The Japanese government is expected to provide 150 billion yen ($926 million) in subsidies to a Rakuten Group-led consortium that will develop a homegrown satellite communications network, Nikkei has learned. A formal decision by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is expected soon. The subsidies will be provided over the course of three years. Rakuten, whose businesses include wireless communications and e-commerce, will partner with U.S. satellite communications company AST SpaceMobile to build a direct-to-mobile satellite network in Japan. The government will subsidize equipment procurement, as well as the establishment of ground facilities for launching and controlling a constellation of multiple low-orbit satellites. The ministry saw an economic security need to support the creation of a Japanese-operated network like SpaceX's Starlink. No companies besides Rakuten's consortium appear to have applied for the aid. Rakuten Group plans to form a new joint venture with AST SpaceMobile to handle satellite operations in Japan in 2026, billionaire Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told Nikkei in an interview. Satellites enable communication when infrastructure on the ground is damaged in disasters. After Japan's Noto Peninsula earthquake in 2024, Starlink was used until cable connections were restored. Direct-to-mobile satellite networks can also provide access to communication in places where needed infrastructure is difficult to install, such as mountainous areas and remote islands. Starlink operator SpaceX and other companies outside Japan now hold a dominant position in satellite communications, posing a risk of overreliance on a foreign networks. The ministry said last Wednesday that it would allow direct satellite communications in the 700-megahertz band in preparation for the new project. The ministry plans to revise relevant regulations in September. asia.nikkei.com/business/tel…