Roughly one in five floating shares, sold by people who looked at a company unfolding
phased arrays the size of tennis courts in low Earth orbit and concluded the ceiling
was here. They have been wrong loudly and expensively. They are still short.
Percent of float
19.9%float ≈ 298.0M shares
Days to cover
4.1at recent average volume
Short position value
—at the 24/7 on-chain mark
Settlement date
Aug 15FINRA, bi-weekly
02Burn sequencefour events, in order
how thrust becomes altitude
$GPS is paired against tokenized ASTS. The pool only knows how to do one thing with a
buy, and it happens to be the thing we want.
T+00 · Ignition
degens buy $gps
Number goes up. The congregation assembles. Nothing further is required of you.
T+01 · Propellant
the pool drinks asts
Every green candle pulls tokenized ASTS out of circulation and into the pair.
T+02 · Mass on board
real shares behind it
Each stock token is issued against a real share, bought and held off-market in a vault.
T+03 · Orbit raise
the float tightens
Fifty-nine million borrowed shares, fewer places to buy them back. You can do the physics.
03Altitudeshares lifted vs shares owed
how much of the pile is out of reach
Every tokenized share sitting in the vault is a share a short seller cannot buy back from
you. This is the honest number, drawn to honest scale.
— shares lifted on-chain59,300,000 shares owed by shorts
04Mass ratio$GPS vs the company it rides for
the vehicle against the payload
AST SpaceMobile isn't the enemy — it's the house. The enemy is one section up. This is
just the scoreboard: how big the meme has gotten relative to the real thing.