Launch the next five satellites
Delivered after the deadline (256 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 15 Aug 2022
- Due
- 31 Dec 2023
- Delivered
- 12 Sep 2024
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Next five satellites are under initial phase of component construction, with most of the design based on similar technology to BlueWalker 3, including FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), reaction wheels and antennas, with launch planned”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company launched its first five commercial satellites (Block 1 BB) on September 12, 2024, which occurred after the late 2023 deadline.
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A AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 10-K filed 2025-03-03
“We launched five first generation commercial BB satellites (“Block 1 BB satellites”) on September 12, 2024.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +26.6% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (28 Feb 2025 to 5 Mar 2025). 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 +259 days
- Language weakened: expected → aspirational
- 3 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 15 Aug 2022
Deadline 31 Dec 2023 (“late 2023”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 14 Aug 2023
Deadline 31 Mar 2024 (“Q1 2024”) · wording expected
“The first five satellites are fully-funded with a planned launch in Q1 2024”
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Version 3 · stated 14 Aug 2024
Deadline 15 Sep 2024 (“first half of September”) · target 5 satellites · wording aspirational
“First 5 commercial satellites on target for dedicated orbital launch in first half of September”
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
- next five satellites
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
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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