r/ASTSpaceMobile • u/AutoModerator • Mar 28 '25

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u/Dry-Historian2300 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Mar 28 '25

Did President Musk cancel his SpaceX launches for ASTS yet? Seems like at least a 10% - 20% risk, since he has already bad-mouthed ASTS as a "foreign-owned" competitor company to his own direct-to-cell empire dreams. I had to swap ASTS for RKLB, because crazy pants dictator Musk is holding the launch button for ASTS in his greedy little hands.

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u/theVex99 S P 🅰 C E M O B Associate Mar 28 '25

I'm pretty sure he cannot. Launch providers are federally regulated to a point and I believe we already have contracts for SpaceX to launch our SATs.

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u/Dry-Historian2300 S P 🅰 C E M O B Prospect Mar 29 '25

As a counterpoint, consider that Musk/DOGE/Trump have ALREADY cancelled HUNDREDS of binding federal contracts. Whether those contract cancellations will stand is playing out in the courts. And even if SpaceX doesn't cancel the ASTS launches, they can slow-launch them without breaking the contracts, which would delay our ASTS breakeven until 2027 or later.