Launch the first Block 2 BlueBird satellite
Delivered after the deadline (267 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 1 Apr 2024
- Due
- 31 Mar 2025
- Delivered
- 23 Dec 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Secured launch contract for first 2,400 sq. ft next generation Block 2 BlueBird satellite, with a contractual launch window from December 2024 to March 2025”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company failed to launch the first Block 2 BlueBird satellite within the original March 2025 deadline, ultimately launching it on December 23, 2025.
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A AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 8-K filed 2025-05-12
“First Block 2 BlueBird satellite expected to ship in Q2 2025, with orbital launch scheduled during July 2025” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 10-K filed 2026-03-02
“The Company launched the first (“BB6”) of its next generation commercial BB satellites (“Block 2 BB satellites”) on December 23, 2025.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -2.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (9 May 2025 to 14 May 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 +91 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 1 Apr 2024
Deadline 31 Mar 2025 (“from December 2024 to March 2025”)
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Version 2 · stated 12 May 2025
Deadline 30 Jun 2025 (“in Q2 2025”) · wording expected
“First Block 2 BlueBird satellite expected to ship in Q2 2025”
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Version 3 · stated 12 May 2025
Deadline 31 Jul 2025 (“during July 2025”)
“orbital launch scheduled during July 2025”
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 Block 2 BlueBird satellite
- 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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