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Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite

4 points by isaacfrond 3y ago

FerretFred 3y ago
... and the satellite sent back the message "Please type 3345678889 to complete pairing".
westurner 2y ago
> The company joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort and closed a $20 million Series A last March. Hubble’s first innovation was to develop software enabling off-the-shelf Bluetooth chips to communicate over very long ranges [600km] with low power. > [...] Once it’s up and running, a customer would simply need to integrate their devices’ chipsets with a piece of firmware to enable connection to Hubble’s network.
westurner 2y ago
> soil-moisture sensing "Satellite images of plants' fluorescence can predict crop yields" (2024) ... "Sensor-Free Soil Moisture Sensing Using LoRa Signals (2022)" https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=40234912 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=40234912 "Multimodal" Aperture synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis