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They 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-h
by goatsi 5y ago
They 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/