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This might as well be a joke. I am willing to bet anyone here that this will never happen. It would be like trying to start a new company to compete with AMZN s
by hourislate 5y ago
This might as well be a joke. I am willing to bet anyone here that this will never happen. It would be like trying to start a new company to compete with AMZN selling the same things they sell online. Yeah, good luck with that.
Why is it no one wanted to put up a fleet of Satellites to provide Internet access until SpaceX did it? What makes these companies/countries think they can do it when the expense will be (?) times greater than what SpaceX can do it for?
- goatsi 5y agoThey are competing with Amazon (the AWS groundstation product)[0], not SpaceX Starlink. >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. [0]https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/ https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/