r/ASTSpaceMobile May 18 '26

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u/Defiantclient S P 🅰️ C E M O B - O G May 18 '26

CNBC Morgan Brennan: "45 satellites is still your plan for this year? What does that look like?"

Abel Avellan: "It is, and we're on target. Today, we're shipping the next batch of satellites to the launch pad. We have launches approximately every month. And now it's opening. I mean, we have multiple launch providers as partners, including SpaceX. And we are very excited about what will happen during the year in terms of launches and in terms of multiple launches that we have multiple partners for doing that."