Launch the BlueWalker 3 satellite

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 31 Mar 2022
Due: 22 Sep 2022
Delivered: 10 Sep 2022

Deadline
Met
Late
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Today

What the company said

“The satellite is on schedule for our planned summer launch”

SourceAST SpaceMobile, Inc. Form 8-K press release, 2022-03-31
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedsummer
Deadline used22 Sep 2022, the last day of the stated period
TypeProject
Permanent referenceKI-C-2022-ASTS-003655
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2022-ASTS-003655/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company successfully launched the BlueWalker 3 satellite on September 10, 2022, which falls within the summer 2022 timeframe.

A
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 10-Q filed 2022-11-14 Regulatory filing · published 14 Nov 2022 · retrieved 2 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 305e31b6a698
“The Company launched its BlueWalker 3 (“BW3”) test satellite on September 10, 2022.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -23.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (11 Nov 2022 to 16 Nov 2022). What this measures

Checked 2 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift -7 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 31 Mar 2022

Deadline 22 Sep 2022 (“summer”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 15 Aug 2022

Deadline 15 Sep 2022 (“early to mid-September”) · wording expected

“Upcoming planned launch, with a launch window for early to mid-September”
Source for this version
Version 3 · stated 2 Mar 2026

Deadline 31 Mar 2026 (“during March”)

“BlueBird 7, identical to BlueBird 6, is encapsulated within the New Glenn launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral awaiting orbital launch during March”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Commercial launch
Indicative materiality: Medium rules
Action: Launch
Deliverable: BlueWalker 3 satellite
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: Medium
Depends on: Partner

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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