{"id":79203,"date":"2025-08-13T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/79203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:35:11","slug":"fully-funded-key-market-coverage-plan-lifts-ast-spacemobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/79203\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully funded key-market coverage plan lifts AST SpaceMobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 AST SpaceMobile shares rose more than 8% to $49.76 Aug. 12 after the direct-to-smartphone operator said it has secured all the funding needed to deploy 45\u201360 satellites, enough to provide continuous coverage in the United States and other key markets.<\/p>\n

To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n

Register now and get
3 free articles every month.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n

Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n

Get unlimited access to
SpaceNews.com now.<\/p>\n

As low as $5 per week*<\/p>\n

Cancel anytime. Sales tax may apply. No refunds. (*Billed quarterly)<\/p>\n

See all subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Rainbow writes about satellite telecom, finance and commercial markets for SpaceNews. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. Previously, he was Group Editor-in-Chief for Finance Information Group,…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jason Rainbow\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 AST SpaceMobile shares rose more than 8% to $49.76 Aug. 12 after the direct-to-smartphone operator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[24690,24692,3115,79,722,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-79203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ast-spacemobile","9":"tag-direct-to-smartphone","10":"tag-fundraising","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sn","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}