@jaronmays You may want to ask The black African Kings and Queens for reparations
You know the ones that boxed you up and sold you.
Because without them, none of this ever would’ve happened
@peter_adderton@FCC@BrendanCarrFCC@JusticeATR Regardless the realization of just how dependent AST’s success is on both 3rd party transport and 3rd party service providers is a bit nerve-racking
They have great technology that is un utilizable without SpaceX & MNO’s
They need both to be at all successful
@Enrico__Palazz0@Defiantclient2@spacanpanman You don’t think Elon has a few extra bucks to weather a financial turn down for the greater good of his own interest ?
He has more money in his ashtray than most of us have in our brokerage accounts..
I get the anti trust laws. But there are many ways they can stall us or drastically impede our ability to hit critically important milestones.
Clogging up Falcon 9’s calendar with legit or not so legit bookings.
Shutting down for a period of times for “Scheduled maintenance”
Essentially using tricks to do quiet quit thing.
@RepJasmine Jan 2 is right around the corner !! What’s next for ya? Ozempic and then Only Fans ? If ya shed about 100lbs you may do ok. You face isn’t that bad !
@peterlindmark@CatSE___ApeX___ $ASTS
The stars are aligning
After the napalm settles in the space sector, and people come out from underneath their bunkers
ASTS is going to be a space play standout for them to put their money in
@kevin__mak My fear is it’s not against the law for SpaceX to tinker with their launch calendar to handcuff us. They don’t have to deny us service to make things very painful. We are also very dependent on MNO’s
We have the tech we just don’t have control over delivery & service providers
@Defiantclient2 Sorry I should have said successful launches. BB 7 to me is equivalent to a no launch. In fact it was risky and actually bad judgment using BO at that stage of their evolution. IMO.
@Defiantclient2 In all fairness they had 1 launch 2025, 2 in 2026, if they get one in by November that make 3
So that would be a triple!
I like 9 for 2027. :-)
@spacanpanman Getting to 25 sats to start beta
that’s roughly 4 to 5 more launches on falcon nine
45-60 day intervals mid to late 2027
It’s gonna be a rocky road till then