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It remains to be seen whether they can really raise the money to do this. I am a bit skeptical that a double-6U-cubesat will have enough power and RF link budg
by walrus01 5y ago
It remains to be seen whether they can really raise the money to do this.
I am a bit skeptical that a double-6U-cubesat will have enough power and RF link budget possible to compete with starlink. I'm saying this as a starlink beta customer for a year now.
If their intended target market is more like a lower-bandwidth competitor to Iridium and Inmarsat's L-band based services for mobile terminals/offshore/industrial/aviation and similar markets, maybe it can find a market niche, but it will have to be a whole lot less costly in dollar per MB.
- goatsi 5y agoFrom the article it looks like they are trying to act as an uplink/downlink service for other satellites rather than anything terrestrial. >Kepler CEO and co-founder Mina Mitry said the six-year-old privately-held Toronto company only plans to launch 200 of its own small satellites to establish its internet-of-the-sky service called AEther. The rest of the six-figure sum of flying objects would actually be launched by its customers – such as Earth observation services, space tourism operators, space agencies and defence departments – which would affix a cellphone-sized 220-gram terminal provided by Kepler to their own satellites. The Kepler box would function like a SIM card and enable customer satellites to connect to the larger constellation “and any other space-borne assets” in LEO, via the always-on, always-available AEther network.
- walrus01 5y agoon their website they have that, and also what appears to be a ground-to-space LEO data service.