AST SpaceMobile

aid: ast-spacemobile
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ast-spacemobile/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: AST SpaceMobile
kind: company
description: 'AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ, ASTS) is a United States satellite operator building the SpaceMobile Network, a space-based
  cellular broadband constellation of BlueBird satellites carrying the largest commercial phased-array antennas in low Earth
  orbit, designed to deliver 4G and 5G directly to standard, unmodified smartphones. It sits upstream of the retail telecom
  market as a wholesale coverage layer, not a consumer brand, not a CPaaS: signals from a handset are relayed by satellite
  to a small number of in-country ground gateways, which compensate for Doppler and delay and then hand the traffic into a
  mobile network operator''s core, where the operator completes the call and bills the subscriber. Distribution runs entirely
  through partner carriers, with agreements covering nearly 60 mobile network operators serving over 3 billion subscribers,
  including AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten, Bell, TELUS and stc, plus strategic investment from Google and American Tower.
  Its API posture is that of a satellite infrastructure company rather than a network-API publisher, honestly assessed as
  none: as of July 2026 AST SpaceMobile publishes no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI, no SDKs and no public
  network-API surface. Probes of developer, developers, docs, api and opengateway subdomains and the corresponding site paths
  all fail to resolve or return 404, and no CAMARA, GSMA Open Gateway, TM Forum or 3GPP NEF exposure claim appears anywhere
  on ast-science.com or in its press releases. Any programmable access to SpaceMobile capacity reaches developers only indirectly,
  through the partner carrier that owns the subscriber relationship and the network APIs.'
image: https://ast-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-Rectangle-491-6-192x192.png
tags:
- Telecommunications
- United States
- Satellite
- Direct-to-Device
- Non-Terrestrial Network
- Mobile Network Operator
- Broadband
- 5G
- Roaming
- Space
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ast-spacemobile-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ast-spacemobile-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://ast-science.com/
- type: About
  url: https://ast-science.com/company/
- type: Team
  url: https://ast-science.com/company/our-team/
- type: Careers
  url: https://ast-science.com/company/careers/
- type: Blog
  url: https://ast-science.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://ast-science.com/feed/
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://ast-science.com/press-releases/
- type: Partners
  url: https://ast-science.com/partners/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://ast-science.com/faqs/
- type: Contact
  url: https://ast-science.com/contact/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://investors.ast-science.com/
- type: SECFilings
  url: https://investors.ast-science.com/sec-filings
- type: Events
  url: https://investors.ast-science.com/events
- type: Resources
  url: https://ast-science.com/resources/
- type: Images
  url: https://ast-science.com/resources/images/
- type: Videos
  url: https://ast-science.com/resources/videos/
- type: BrandResources
  url: https://ast-science.com/resources/brand-resources/
- type: Sitemap
  url: https://ast-science.com/sitemap_index.xml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ast-science.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ast-science.com/terms-of-service/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ast-science/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/AST_SpaceMobile
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/c/ASTSpaceMobile
- type: Bluesky
  url: https://bsky.app/profile/ast-science.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com