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Apple's solution is Globalstar. You can tell because their SOS has the same limitation of no responses. It is impossible to do NTN without new satellites. Star
by ianburrell 3y ago
Apple's solution is Globalstar. You can tell because their SOS has the same limitation of no responses.
It is impossible to do NTN without new satellites. Starlink is launching new satellites with huge dishes that can do LTE to the ground.
- lxgr 3y ago> You can tell because their SOS has the same limitation of no responses. No, Apple's solution is two-way. The SOS chat is bidirectional. Globalstar's second generation of satellites don't have the problem with failing S-band amplifiers that has made the first generation an effectively unidirectional constellation. > It is impossible to do NTN without new satellites. You can definitely do NTN on existing bent-pipe satellites. For example, Skylo (used e.g. by "Motorola Rugged" satellite messengers and Android phones) is doing NTN on satellites launched more than a decade ago.