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Coming Soon: Free Internet From Space
- lutusp 13y agoAn article without a single word of useful information -- no clue about orbital height, how many subscribers might be served by a given satellite, how the system would switch between satellites as one satellite moved out of view, that sort of thing. Without the technical details, it's a pipe dream unlikely to attract investors.
- andymoe 13y agoThis particular plan may be a pipe dream but I think everyone is vastly underestimating the roll satellite comm will play in the next 20 years. Access to space is going to get much much cheaper and I suspect this kind of thing will become a major competitor with terrestrial wireless services. For instance, Iridium has 500 million in launches on the SpaceX books for Iridium Next starting in 2015. This is global constellation in LEO providing 1.5mbs wireless data connection anywhere in the world. [1] http://www.iridium.com/about/iridiumnext.aspx http://www.iridium.com/about/iridiumnext.aspx