# The Cell Tower That Could Make Dead Zones Disappear - Date: 2026-04-18 - Category: Space & Aerospace BlueBird 7 is carrying a 2,400-square-foot antenna into orbit — the largest communications array ever deployed in low-Earth orbit. If AST SpaceMobile direct-to-device broadband works at scale, dead zones go quiet. If it does not, so does a $2.22B debt load on a physics bet. ---