---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-039386"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASTS"
cik: "0001780312"
company_name: "AST SpaceMobile, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T04:48:40.527757+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AST SpaceMobile reports Q4/FY2023 results; cash $210.8M; FCC approves direct-to-device framework

## Summary
- Cash & equivalents ~$210.8M at end of Q1 2024, up from $88.1M at Dec 2023; $51.5M undrawn credit facility.
- FCC voted 5-0 on March 14 to approve Supplemental Coverage from Space NPRM, enabling direct-to-device service.
- Five Block 1 BlueBird satellites to be transported to launch site July-August 2024; Block 2 launch window Dec 2024-March 2025.
- Secured fixed-price US government contract; initial revenue expected Q1 2024. Custom ASIC with TSMC in tape-out phase.
- Total operating expenses FY 2023 $222.4M vs $152.9M in 2022; Adjusted Q4 2023 op expenses $38.6M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-039386
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASTS
- cik: 0001780312
- company_name: AST SpaceMobile, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017024039386/0000950170-24-039386-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017024039386/asts-20240401.htm

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## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  AST SpaceMobile, Inc. reported financial results for three and twelve months ended December 31, 2023.
  - Period: three and twelve months ended December 31, 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On April 1, 2024, AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile" or the "Company") issued a press release announcing financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780312/000095017024039386/0000950170-24-039386-index.htm

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