20 July 2022

ORBITAL INTERNET: How Starlink and other satellite services are changing the shape of the internet

 With so much attention on Elon Musk’s bizarre Twitter adventures, it’s easy to forget how fast SpaceX’s Starlink project has been moving. In just the past six months, the service has rolled out to nine new countries and launched a new service for vehicles as well as a new premium tier. There’s even a spectrum fight quietly bubbling in the background. New satellites are launching regularly, and the dream of a low-orbit internet is only getting closer.

’something significant happening here, whether you’re a believer or not. It’s not just Starlink but also projects like OneWeb or Amazon’s Project Kuiper — the whole generation of services providing internet connections through low Earth orbit satellites. If any of those projects can actually make it work, it would change a lot of fundamental facts about internet infrastructure.

To get into exactly why that’s different from the internet that exists today... you’ll have to watch the video.

’s something significant happening here, whether you’re a believer or not. It’s not just Starlink but also projects like OneWeb or Amazon’s Project Kuiper — the whole generation of services providing internet connections through low Earth orbit satellites. If any of those projects can actually make it work, it would change a lot of fundamental facts about internet infrastructure.

To get into exactly why that’s different from the internet that exists today... you’ll have to watch the video.https://www.theverge.com/23204125/starlink-oneweb-project-kuiper-satellite-internet-service-elon-musk#comments

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