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🚨🚨 $ASTS WEEK IN REVIEW🚨🚨

UK and Turkey STAs received, Fidelity loads up, ISRO potentially early launch, New Glenn launch date and more… Image
🚀 $ASTS Weekly Highlights 🚀

🌐 Major Updates:

UK & Turkey STAs received with spectrum consents.

Fidelity increases holdings, signaling confidence.

Launch News: Reports from India suggest an earlier Bluebird 2 launch by ISRO, and New Glenn mission upcoming.

📊 Key Insights:

Production pace hinted at 17 satellites in progress.

Competitive moat fortified: IP, regulatory, and commercial advantages.

🌍 Global Moves:

Australia’s $1.1B rural connectivity plan includes LEO trials.

Starlink Gen 3 satellites promise gigabit speeds, raising stakes.
⁉️Why $ASTS

On paper, one of the most scalable business models I have seen.

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🏌️Stock Price Drivers

November and December proved slower than we expected. 2025 is off to a bang. I think the stock could trade in-line with this chart

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🫖Tea Leaves on Production Rate

Catse looks for clues on production pace

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📡Tendeg Ramping Up

More demand, more people Image
🏆FCC STA Grant for Turkey and UK

Lit the Bluebirds up! Vodafone is first to start testing. Can you hear us now, Verizon? Let's get our US spectrum lease assignment done so we can get the service going in the States

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🇬🇧UK STA Summary

Funny enough, as I was typing this, there was an AT&T FirstNet advertisement. We're in a simulation... Image
🇹🇷Turkey STA Summary

A Spacemob member pointed out that the test area is very close to the Turkey department of device Image
💫Starlink Comparison

Starlink's amended Japanese STA has 5x5 MHz. Hard to make that useful.

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🔙Backhaul Bandwidth

Catse digs a bit deeper into the UK STA

🔭Telescope Protection

ASTS continues to report its progress to the FCC. Signs of life.

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🏰ASTS Tech Moat

A nice year end summary of the pace of innovation at $ASTS

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🔵New Glenn Launch

If for no other reason, this will be fun to watch

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🇮🇳If it's in the newspaper…

ISRO busts onto the scene talking about $ASTS and their foray into US commercial launches

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🦘Bluebird 2 Launch Watch

Reports out of India show that $ASTS launch might have jumped the queue

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📰More News Out of India

“In February or March we will be launching a US satellite for mobile communication, this satellite will enable voice communication on mobile phones. It will be an interesting mission," an NDTV report quoted as saying Dr Jitendra Singh, the minister of science and technology.

This will also mark the first time that an American company's large-scale communications satellite will be launched from an Indian rocket.

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🚀ISRO Has A Busy Year

Nice overview of what's going on with ISRO

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📺India Launch

Cool video showing the most recent ISRO launch (at min 30)

🏦Fidelity Buys

Remember the power of large accumulation

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🇳🇴DNB Nor Spreading the Word

Iversen educating Scandiland

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🇦🇺Australia Government Funding

Money from governments will be a theme

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🌠Starlink Gen 3

SPACEX TEASES 1TBPS STARLINK SATELLITES FOR GIGABIT INTERNET SpaceX’s next-gen V3 Starlink satellites promise 1Tbps download bandwidth—10x the speed of current models. Each launch via Starship will add 60Tbps capacity, scaling the network for gigabit speeds in congested areas. With over 4.6M users, Starlink aims to redefine global internet access.

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🇪🇺Europe Fakes It

This headline might be true. It might be the first 5G connection from a random LEO satellite to a ground station. It was not the first 5G connection from a LEO satellite to an unmodified handset

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For those who want to go over these materials with me tomorrow, let's tentatively schedule 7:30 PST EST for a Spaces.

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