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There are already people doing this. Not that it means no one else should, but this isn't a new idea. http://onewebsatellites.com/ http://onewebsatellites.com/
by malyk 9y ago
There are already people doing this. Not that it means no one else should, but this isn't a new idea.
http://onewebsatellites.com/ http://onewebsatellites.com/
- marricks 9y agoThat link just says they make satellites, not a global satellite based internet.
- Robotbeat 9y agoOneWeb didn't invent the idea, either. In fact, SpaceX once partnered with OneWeb, but OneWeb wasn't on board with Musk's crazily ambitious plans for the LEO constellation, and OneWeb's constellation is kind of lame because it doesn't do satellite-to-satellite communications. There was a rash of these schemes in the 1990s. Teledesic was the most similar one, and they went bankrupt and the constellation never launched. Voice-centric Iridium and Globalstar did launch, though, but they also went bankrupt but continued operating and have been refreshing their constellations. Iridium does sat-to-sat and is thus more capable, but Globalstar does not (they do "bent pipe" ala OneWeb). And there's also Telestar's LEO constellation also being launched nowadays. It's sat-to-sat and is closer to Teledesic in size than SpaceX's Starlink.
- nickik 9y agoThey are not already doing it, they are like SpaceX planning it. The might be a little ahead of SpaceX but we really don't know. SpaceX is playing Starlink extremly secretly and we don't know how far they really are.