Launch the first five commercial BlueBird satellites
Delivered after the deadline (165 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 25 Oct 2023
- Due
- 31 Mar 2024
- Delivered
- 12 Sep 2024
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“First five commercial BlueBird satellites expected to be launched in Q1 2024”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company committed to launching the first five commercial BlueBird satellites by Q1 2024, but the launch occurred on September 12, 2024, which is after the stated deadline.
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A AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 10-Q filed 2024-11-14
“The Company launched five first generation commercial BB satellites (“Block 1 BB satellites”) on September 12, 2024.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -6.0% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (13 Nov 2024 to 18 Nov 2024). 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 +168 days
- Language weakened: expected → aspirational
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 25 Oct 2023
Deadline 31 Mar 2024 (“Q1 2024”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · 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
- First five commercial BlueBird satellites
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- 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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