{"id":47968,"date":"2025-11-26T22:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ast-spacemobile-adds-manufacturing-sites-in-texas-and-florida\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:40:34","slug":"ast-spacemobile-adds-manufacturing-sites-in-texas-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ast-spacemobile-adds-manufacturing-sites-in-texas-and-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"AST SpaceMobile Adds Manufacturing Sites in Texas and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>AST SpaceMobile <\/b>is expanding its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of two new sites, one in Texas and one in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company announced this week it is adding a facility in Midland, Texas, where it is headquartered, and adding a site in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. These moves expand the company\u2019s manufacturing footprint to 500,000 square feet over seven sites in the United States. The company says it is 95% vertically integrated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we accelerate production of our next-generation BlueBird satellites, the expansion allows us to increase capacity, strengthen our supply chain, and bring even more high-technology manufacturing work back to the United States,\u201d AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan said in a release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AST SpaceMobile recently announced its BlueBird 6 satellite \u2014 the first of its next-generation satellites \u2014 is set to launch on Dec. 15 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. AST SpaceMobile says it expects five orbital launches by the end of the first quarter of 2026 as it builds out direct-to-device constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AST SpaceMobile is expanding its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of two new sites, one in Texas and one in Florida.&nbsp; The company announced this week it is adding a facility in Midland, Texas, where it is headquartered, and adding a site in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. These moves expand the company\u2019s manufacturing footprint to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}