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Interestingly, Facebook just announces that they are giving up on a project to do just that. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-scraps-secret-plan-to-buil
by tdaltonc 11y ago
Interestingly, Facebook just announces that they are giving up on a project to do just that.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-scraps-secret-plan-to-build-satellite-to-provide-internet-in-developing-world-500-million-2015-6?op=1 http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-scraps-secret-plan-t...
- crorella 11y agoIt looks like the approach was different: instead of having several thousand of small and 'cheap' satellites, they were aiming for an expensive and big one.
- dwg 11y agoPresumably this is because of the cost of launching the satellites (obviously quite a bit more than racking a server in a data center). Nonetheless, if this strategy beats the latency, then I agree that it's the right one.
- greglindahl 11y agoPresumably the one big satellite was intended to be backhaul for the solar planes. They can probably buy that backhaul from someone else with less risk and effort.