AST SpaceMobile manufacturing facilities. Photo: AST SpaceMobile

AST SpaceMobile is expanding its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of two new sites, one in Texas and one in Florida. 

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’s manufacturing footprint to 500,000 square feet over seven sites in the United States. The company says it is 95% vertically integrated. 

“As 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,” AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan said in a release. 

AST SpaceMobile recently announced its BlueBird 6 satellite — the first of its next-generation satellites — 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.