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AST SpaceMobile reports Q3 cash $199.5M; BW3 satellite deployed; BlueBird launch planned late 2023
AST SpaceMobile, Inc.
- Ended Q3 with cash, equivalents, restricted cash of $199.5M; sold 51% of NanoAvionika for $26.7M net.
- Total operating expenses $42.1M, up $6.7M QoQ due to R&D and engineering services increases.
- BlueWalker 3 test satellite successfully unfolded largest communications array ever on a commercial LEO satellite.
- Plan to launch five Block 1 BlueBird satellites in late 2023; patent portfolio grew to >2,600 claims worldwide.
- Capitalized costs for BlueWalker 3 test satellite totaled $92.1M as of September 30, 2022.