JAKARTA — With direct-to-device broadband startup AST SpaceMobile, raising cash for a multibillion-dollar network, aligning terrestrial spectrum from mobile network operators (MNOs) with future satellite spectrum and deploying each satellite’s 223-square-meter antenna in low Earth orbit — all of them legitimate achievements — must be set aside to focus on whether the company has contracted enough rockets to meet its goal of having 45 satellites in orbit by the end of this year.
It’s not AST’s fault that the space industry’s wheel of fortune has . . .
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