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Is anyone doing an orbiting UAV as a signal transponder for microwave radio? Ie line of site networking. Internet off the commercial backbones. The privacy an
by marktangotango 13y ago
Is anyone doing an orbiting UAV as a signal transponder for microwave radio? Ie line of site networking. Internet off the commercial backbones. The privacy and security implication should be clear.
- jrockway 13y agoSure. Just bounce your signal off the moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EME_(communications) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EME_(communications) (There are also plenty of amateur satellites that you can use for communication. You won't like the rules, though: no encryption. You also won't like the realities of powering a radio transmitter in space: with a few minutes of sun per orbit onto a tiny solar panel, you get less radio output power than your WiFi network has. If only some company were using tethered balloons to provide networking...)
- marktangotango 13y agoAn advantage aerial over satellite is lower latency.