NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 17:15 ET — After-hours
- AST SpaceMobile shares were last up about 4% in after-hours trading Tuesday.
- A regulatory filing showed a director bought shares last week under a pre-set trading plan.
- Nasdaq data flagged unusually heavy ASTS options activity, led by $80 strike calls.
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. shares rose on Tuesday and were last up about 4.3% at $74.68 in after-hours trading, extending a volatile stretch for the satellite-to-smartphone company.
The move matters because investors are trying to pin down how quickly AST can turn recent launch milestones into repeatable deployment — and, eventually, commercial service that supports the stock’s premium expectations.
In the near term, traders have been keying off any new disclosures on insider activity, partner readiness and derivatives positioning as proxies for sentiment ahead of the company’s next operational updates.
A Form 4 filing on Monday showed director Keith R. Larson purchased 625 shares at $80 apiece on Dec. 24, holding the shares indirectly through an IRA.
The filing also indicated the trade was made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan — a pre-arranged instruction that can automate buying or selling on a set schedule and is commonly used to limit the appearance of trading on material nonpublic information.
Options activity also ran hot. Nasdaq data showed 81,604 ASTS contracts traded by mid-afternoon, with the heaviest flow in $80 strike calls expiring Jan. 2, 2026.
AT&T, one of AST’s carrier partners, added to the drumbeat in a company blog post on Monday. Robert Walters, an AT&T senior vice president, wrote the BlueBird 6 launch brings AT&T “one step closer to making broadband satellite connectivity available to our customers.” AT&T Newsroom
The same post said AST is “on track to complete four more launches by March 2026,” and that AT&T plans to offer a beta satellite service to a select number of customers and public safety users in the first half of next year, with a commercial launch to follow. AT&T Newsroom
AST last week announced the successful orbital launch of BlueBird 6, its first next-generation satellite designed to deliver 4G and 5G broadband directly to standard, unmodified smartphones — “direct-to-device” service that does not require special hardware on the handset. Business Wire+1
The company said BlueBird 6 carries a communications array of nearly 2,400 square feet, part of a broader push to expand capacity and coverage as it scales a low-Earth-orbit constellation.
Investors are now watching for signs the satellite is commissioning smoothly — the step-by-step process of deploying hardware, establishing links and verifying performance — and for any concrete milestones on when additional satellites will follow.
The next major scheduled datapoint is results. ASTS’s next earnings release is expected around March 2, 2026, according to Zacks’ calendar, though the company has not confirmed a date.
On Tuesday, ASTS traded between $72.07 and $78.27, with more than 17 million shares changing hands, underscoring how quickly positioning can swing as the market prices the pace — and the cost — of the rollout.
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