“Skynet”, for short.
Who owns this venture?
I’m guessing that the principal benefit here will be that porn will be made more available. Yay internet!
“...OneWeb was founded by Greg Wyler in 2012, and its board of directors includes Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, who also invested in the company.
OneWeb isn’t the only company seeking to build a low-Earth satellite broadband network. SpaceX has similar plans, for example...”
I’ve had enough of these satellites they disrupt my astronomy viewing all the time. Every time one comes across my telescope I think I’m seeing an UFO.
Another startup financier told me a year ago of an easier more economical means of accomplishing the same thing.
Mounted bandwidth transceivers on Airliners solve the same problem. Airline traffic lanes cover the same ground at a greater power. No need to clutter up space.
Better yet, the Trump Administration can launch a wireless broadband grid of Microwave Internet transponders with speeds far surpassing 1 Gig. Such a system has already been operating for years in Las Vegas:
http://www.lv.net/Las-Vegas.htm
Facepuke for all
Facepuke for all
Earlier the FCC touted a program involving Federal aid to the telecoms to build out internet access to rural areas.
I said at the time that no special program was needed.
If it was economically feasible, or if technology was needed in order to be feasible, someone would step up to fill that gap WITHOUT a federal program.
One World’s plans demonstrates my point.
On the other hand, maybe it is NOT economically feasible, yet, and One World is just stepping up to get the crony-capitalist handouts from the FCC. If that’s the case, it will go bust down the road unless initial subsidies are not continued.
Sounds like a scam. Not counting the cost of the hardware, figure a half million per launch (although I will concede that they can probably get a cheaper rate from North Korea).
I’m losing track of zeros, but is that $360 trillion dollars?
Skynet
Gonna get dark out there. End to agw.
Google has a much bigger bankroll, although their global WiFi project is a bit “looney”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon
One feature of this satellite service, is that anyone with a skynet (you know the name will stick) transceiver will be able to access websites regardless of any effort of their local (non-US) government to block or censor traffic. It bypasses national ISPs.
Whats the fee going to be?
Will it be based on ability to pay and need for internet?
Btt
Enough bandwidth to upgrade Free Republic to video, real time, simulated 3D character discussion.
It’s awfully crowded up there.
“As of 5 July 2016, the United States Strategic Command tracked a total of 17,852 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth,[1] including 1,419 operational satellites.[2] However, these are just objects large enough to be tracked. As of July 2013, more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 670,000 debris 1–10 cm, and around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit.[3] Collisions with debris have become a hazard to spacecraft; they cause damage akin to sandblasting, especially to solar panels and optics like telescopes or star trackers that can not be covered with a ballistic Whipple shield (unless it is transparent).”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris