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Abel Avellan

Abel Avellan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AST SpaceMobile

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We are the only company capable of delivering 4G and 5G and in the future, 6G broadband speed sufficient for voice calls, voice over LTE, live video calls, streaming, and full Internet access directly to unmodified devices.

We remain on track to achieve our target of deploying 45 to 60 satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of this year — March 2026 earnings call

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Blue Origin proves New Glenn booster reuse, enters the reusable heavy-lift race

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Scaling BlueBird constellation toward global coverage

Blue Origin flew a previously used New Glenn rocket booster for the first time on April 19, 2026, becoming only the second company ever to reuse an orbital-class rocket stage. The booster, named 'Never Tell Me the Odds,' first flew in November 2025 and landed successfully again on the drone ship Jacklyn roughly ten minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The milestone came on just the third flight of New Glenn, the heavy-lift rocket that Blue Origin spent over a decade developing.

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