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BOTH SWARM COFOUNDERS HAVE NOW LEFT SPACEX In an interesting move before their IPO and launch of their v2 D2D constellation, Ben Longmier has left SpaceX. This means both Swarm cofounders have left after Sara Spangelo in October 2024. Could this mean the D2D development isn't going as well as hoped? Best of luck for the future Ben! $ASTS


@AST_SpaceMobile white-label strategy is fundamentally flawed when measured against @Starlink brand-driven, consumer-facing model. White labeling your entire platform to carriers is the opposite of building leverage. It places all your destiny in the hands of MNOs When you’re selling a carrier a feature instead of selling a consumer a dream, you’ve already lost. Starlink did the opposite Built a global brand, not a back-end feature. Made themselves consumer indispensable, not carrier optional. Forced MNOs to come to them from a position of weakness, not the other way around. If you rely on carriers to sell your product,you’re dead. Starlink understood that. AST still hasn’t. @TMFAssociates




Introducing TeraWave: a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations. The TeraWave architecture consists of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites in LEO and MEO, reaching remote, rural, and suburban areas where diverse fiber paths are costly, technically infeasible, or slow to deploy, while providing additional route diversity and strengthening overall network resilience. Learn more: bit.ly/4qFs108


$ASTS held the cup top and 13sma yesterday and now is pushing off the 8ema. Bulls defended exactly where they needed to. It's now defined a huge range just above the cup setting it up for another leg higher imo. Looking at $130, $145, and $165 as potential key areas *NFA

I left SpaceX a little while ago to spend more time with our new baby and family. I’m really proud of the Swarm and Direct to Cell (DTC) teams for going from a clean sheet design to commercial start with many hundreds of satellites in orbit serving users on 6 continents with text and data directly to their unmodified phones. It still seems like magic that we can text family and friends through the DTC sats traveling at Mach 23 at a 700 km slant distance directly through the worst part of a hurricane. I’m excited for the world to experience what is coming in the next generation of DTC, it will be really special. I was also given a shot to re-design the satellite Hall thruster with a small focused team. We made Argon propellant viable, and in fact made it more efficient and higher Isp than all previous Krypton or Xenon flight Hall thrusters, and did so with about 10x fewer parts. There are still many plasma physics secrets to be unlocked for future thruster generations. The engineering talent density, dedication, and speed at SpaceX are the highest in the world and it was fun to work alongside so much raw horsepower. I am very grateful to @elonmusk and @Gwynne_Shotwell for treating us so well at every turn, taking a chance on our team, and trusting us to build such a big project. Obviously this is only the beginning for @SpaceX as Elon and the team continue to expand humanity’s presence to the Moon, Mars, and further along the Kardashev scale.






New Glenn’s third mission, NG-3, will send @AST_SpaceMobile’s next generation Block 2 BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit, NET late February. Learn more: bit.ly/49XnQWm



















