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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-025046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASTS"
cik: "0001780312"
company_name: "AST SpaceMobile, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T20:50:51.672880+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AST SpaceMobile reports Q3 cash $199.5M; BW3 satellite deployed; BlueBird launch planned late 2023

## Summary
- 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.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-025046
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASTS
- cik: 0001780312
- company_name: AST SpaceMobile, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017022025046/0000950170-22-025046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017022025046/asts-20221114.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-025046
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-025046.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-22-025046.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  AST SpaceMobile, Inc. reported financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
  - Period: the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On November 14, 2022, AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile” or the “Company”) issued a press release announcing financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017022025046/0000950170-22-025046-index.htm

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