So that's moving around as we live, work, and travel.

That's dead zones where it's not lit up in certain frequencies or any frequencies with any towers.

It's gray zones where your phone just doesn't work so great.

As you start getting out of the suburbs of the US, many of us know and experience that one or two bars that does, you know,

limited or poor service.

Being able to solve those sorts of issues is the killer app for us.

I'm Mary Long, and that's Scott Wisniewski.

He's the president and chief strategy officer of AST Space Mobile.

It's a company that builds its own satellites.

Think of them as foldable cell towers,

and it sends those objects into low Earth orbit, the span of space that's a mere 250 miles away from us here on Earth.

Those satellites make up the world's first space-based cellular broadband network.

AST's goal is to make direct-to-your-phone connectivity available everywhere and anywhere,

that's literally anywhere, in the desert, on the waterphone connectivity available everywhere and anywhere. That's literally anywhere,

in the desert, on the water, on a plane, anywhere. My colleague, Ricky Moldy, caught up with Wisniewski

to discuss how to get objects that are as large as one-bedroom apartments up into space,

solving cold fusion-type problems, and the space internet to killer app pipeline. So earlier this fall,

something exciting happened for your company, which is that SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carried your

satellites, the bluebird satellites, into low Earth orbit. And there's six of them up there now.

And these will provide internet direct to cell phone.

So I guess I should first say congratulations on this. This is a pretty monumental achievement

for your company. Thank you. Yeah. We couldn't be happier. We've been added for seven years.

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