Crossroads Capital Investment Partners, an investor in AST SpaceMobile, has provided a quarterly update and valuable comments on the continued rationale behind its investment. The letter reminded clients that its stake in AST is up 34 per cent this year. “We wanted to take a quick moment to note the company made significant strides in […]

India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has delayed by a week its planned launch of AST SpaceMobile’s first of its powerful next-generation ‘Block 2’ BlueBird satellites (BlueBird 6). A planned launch date of December 15th has slipped to December 20th at 04.20 UTC. AST already has five of the earlier generation BlueBirds in orbit. Scott Wisniewski, […]

AST SpaceMobile, together with telco giant AT&T, is to start beta-tests of its Direct-to-Cellular satellite service over the US. A statement talked of using “real smartphones” in the tests and using the first five AST satellites already in orbit. AST is due to launch a much larger satellite in a week’s time from an Indian […]

Would-be global satellite-to-cellular operator AST SpaceMobile has upped the number of its BlueBird satellites to be launched by SpaceX from three aboard to four. While the precise launch date has not been confirmed, rumours suggest that it could happen on December 30th, from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Meanwhile, the first of […]

Analysts at investment bank Deutsche Bank have outlined some aggressive share price targets for would-be global Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite operator AST SpaceMobile. The current share price target is an already bullish $81 (€70) per share. AST’s shares are trading at about $58-$65 per share, with the market in general awaiting the upcoming mid-December launch of […]

AST SpaceMobile’s president Scott Wisniewski spoke about AST’s mobile operator-first approach, comprehensive spectrum position, and massive market opportunity – positioning it to deliver transformative direct-to-device connectivity to billions worldwide. Wisniewski was addressing Deutsche Bank’s Global Space Summit in New York last week. He told delegates: “We have incredible terrestrial connectivity compared to where we started […]

AST SpaceMobile has confirmed that India’s Space Research Organisation will launch AST’s BlueBird 6 satellite on December 15th, subject to the usual weather and technical considerations. The launch will take place at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. The launch kicks off a multi-provider orbital launch campaign by AST which is planning launches every […]

A forecast of the likely impact of Direct-to-Cellular (D2C) and Direct-to-Device (D2D) satellite-based connectivity delivers some strong numbers, and suggests that the 2025-2034 CAGR will be 52.3 per cent and taking the market size to a massive $41.12 billion (€35.6bn) by 2034. The data, from Market.US forecasts that more than half of the market (52.7 […]

World-be global broadband and satellite connectivity operator AST SpaceMobile is preparing for Canadian direct-to-device distribution (D2D) of its signals. AST is already partnering with Bell Canada to conduct successful tests of its space-based cellular network in Canada, including voice, video, and broadband data calls on standard smartphones. This collaboration, confirmed by tests in October, aims […]

A slew of investment banks have come out decidedly in favour of would-be global direct-to-device satellite operator, AST SpaceMobile. For example, analysts at Deutsche Bank are forecasting free cashflow for AST reaching $1.44 billion (€1.24bn) by 2028. The bank has raised its price target to $81 (from $59) and reiterates its ‘Buy’ rating. Bank of […]