Yeah, when this press release was making the rounds a few days ago, I tried to dig up more info, and didn’t find much. It seems like they’re aiming to connect t

Yeah, when this press release was making the rounds a few days ago, I tried to dig up more info, and didn’t find much. It seems like they’re aiming to connect terrestrial BT devices to satellites? I just don’t see how it could work. Maybe the actual tech they’re shooting for is to wrap the BT protocol or modulate it up to blast at satellites? Then you could enable connectivity for existing BT sensor networks and such. They explicitly say that it doesn’t require a hardware retrofit, only firmware, though. I suppose you could hit some sort of harmonic on a 2.4GHz antenna, but that would be very dependent on the frontend and antenna design, and the SNR would probably suck. Something doesn’t add up. Conceptually, I’m also not really sure if the pitch makes sense. Sure, let’s say you can do firmware patches to BT chipsets, but was that the expensive/hard part? Does the BT protocol and spec make sense in the context of hitting a satellite? It’s clearly not designed for it in terms of latencies, airtime, etc.