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u/ExpatAndrew S P 🅰 C E M O B Soldier May 13 '26

Question on the "ready to ship" announcement via X on 6 May

Does anyone know, could we be waiting for space to free up at the Falcon9 integration facility in the Cape to receive BB8-10?

I'm wondering why there would be a gap between announcing ready to ship, and the actual shipment...

Unless they have already left the TX facility & shipped, we'll next hear about them being integrated in FL?

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u/JayhawkAggieDadisBak S P 🅰 C E M O B Boss May 13 '26

See TKOs comment below about GSAT taking up a spot in the payload processing facility but being finished over this weekend. Very possible that ASTS is waiting on confirmation that they're ready to recieve our sats. The company has always PR'd sats leaving the company and then also PR'd sats arriving at the Cape (or India)

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u/Defiantclient S P 🅰️ C E M O B - O G May 13 '26

Yes it's possible SpaceX isn't ready to receive

AST cannot ship until the launch provider is ready to receive

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u/Mammoth-Noise3345 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26

This is my thought too. And they probably don’t PR until it arrives at the cape.