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Satellite stocks moon on elevated call options activity

A big day for AST SpaceMobile, Planet Labs, and Rocket Lab.

9/23/25 3:14PM

Satellite stocks are the latest thematic moon shot — literally — to benefit from a wave of buying appetite.

Volumes and call activity in AST SpaceMobile are each more than double their one-month average with an hour left in the trading day.

Peers Planet Labs and Rocket Lab are enjoying elevated options activity and massive gains as well.

Separately, there is also an unconfirmed report that Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim plans to boost his stake in AST SpaceMobile, which is building out a satellite-based broadband cellular network and whose board his daughter sits on.

In an interview earlier this year, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck told Sherwood News that, in a sense, the end game of the company’s growing space launch and satellite business is ultimately to build out a satellite-based suite of services including broadband, cellular communications, and television.

“What we’re trying to build is an end-to-end space company that does all those things,” Beck said at the time.

Read more: The CEO of the world’s biggest public pure-play space company has a plan to compete with SpaceX

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