AST SpaceMobile now “a revenue generating business”

March 3, 2026

By Chris Forrester

Satellite-based cellular telephony connectivity company AST SpaceMobile has reported its Q4 2005 financial numbers, delivering revenues of $54.3 million (€46.8m) against estimates of $41 million.

AST also confirmed that the vital solar arrays on the recently launched BlueBird 6 satellite had unfurled successfully and were exceeding the designed 120 Mbps peak data rates.

The company said that it expects to have launched 45-60 of its BlueBird satellites by the end of this year. BlueBird 7 is expected to launch by the end of March. BlueBird 7, identical to 2 BlueBird 6, is encapsulated and ready to launch within the next New Glenn launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral and is awaiting orbital launch. BlueBirds 8-29 are in various stages of production..

“For the first time in 2025, AST SpaceMobile became a revenue generating business and it significantly advanced all key aspects of our operations including commercial, government, manufacturing, spectrum rights, IP portfolio, and capital position,” commented CEO Abel Avellan.

“The combination of these efforts resulted in the successful launch and unfolding of our next-generation BlueBird satellite, BlueBird 6, the largest ever commercial communication array deployed in low Earth orbit to enable the first and only global space cellular broadband network for government and commercial customers. On the financial front, during 2025, we raised over $3.5 billion in capital and reported revenue of over $70 million for the full year and signed over $1 billion of minimum committed revenue. Operationally, we plan to ramp our satellite manufacturing efforts and launch cadence this year while we’re rapidly accelerating our government and commercial businesses,” he continued.

“We enter 2026 with a strong momentum and clear vision as we lead the space-based cellular broadband industry, a market that we invented. 2026 will be the year we scale our space-based Direct-to-Device constellation from initial commercial activation to start of commercial service with mobile network operator partners in key markets like United States, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other key strategic markets like the US government. In just over one year since the orbital launch of our first five Block 1 BlueBird satellites, we developed our Block 2 BlueBird programme, which is roughly 3.5 times larger and 10 times the capacity of BlueBird 1 to 5, breaking our previous record on both size and capabilities. Scale, test, launch, and successfully unfolded BlueBird 6, our next-generation satellite of approximately 2,400 sq ft.,” Avellan concluded.

AST listed its key advantages (over rival Starlink Mobile), saying:

AST SpaceMobile now “a revenue generating business”

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