FCC Funds Satellite Broadband in Nevada County
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
The Union has the details: The FCC is giving Viasat more than $400,000 to bring high-speed satellite internet to Nevada County customers. The funding is part of the Federal Communications Commission‘s Connect America Fund, whose second phase granted $14 million to California internet service providers to connect rural areas with high-speed internet. Viasat was the only satellite-based internet service provider to win funding and will receive $429,669 to service just over 1,000 customers in the county over 10 years. According to Nevada County’s broadband strategy, low population density and rug ..read more
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Nextgov: Laser-Linked Satellites Could Deliver ‘Internet from Space’
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
  Such a network could potentially reach remote and underserved areas. A new design could double the network capacity of future “internet from space” systems. Satellites do not yet play a major role in the world’s internet infrastructure. However, this may soon be set to change. Within the next decade, a new generation of satellites could lay the foundations for an “internet from space,” says Ankit Singla, professor at ETH Zurich’s Network Design & Architecture Lab. His team is investigating how to improve the performance of large-scale computer networks, including the internet. Exploitin ..read more
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China’s First LEO 5G Satellite to Launch This Month
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
China’s first LEO 5G broadband satellite. Photo is courtesy of China News Service. China’s first LEO 5G broadband satellite with high capacity to meet international competition will be launched by Chinese commercial aerospace company, Galaxy Space, at the end of December, according to a statement sent to the Global Times. The satellite is the first in China to be built with a capacity of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) and it will be, according to the company, the world’s first LEO broadband satellite in the Q-/V-band, an extremely high frequency band. The satellite has already been developed an ..read more
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SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon’s Internet-Beaming Satellites
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
Amazon is trying to get a waiver to FCC rules that companies like SpaceX and OneWeb had to follow. Motherboard has the details: When Amazon confirmed it was planning to launch 3,236 broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit, much of the media reported it as if it were a done deal—the latest, inevitable step in the corporation’s quest to conquer commerce, the cloud, and beyond. Amazon officials said the massive satellite constellation, called Project Kuiper, would one day provide low-latency, high-speed broadband to tens of millions of underserved people around the world, no d ..read more
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Amazon Is Moving Project Kuiper Satellite Operation to Huge Redmond Facility
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
GeekWire the details: Amazon announced today that its Project Kuiper satellite operation has outgrown its current office space, and will move into 219,000 square feet of space that it’s leasing in Redmond, Wash. — the same city where one of its chief rivals, SpaceX, has its own satellite operation. The new headquarters facility, spread across two buildings, will include offices and design space, research and development labs and prototype manufacturing facilities, Amazon said today in a news release. “Renovations on the facility are already underway, and the Kuiper team will move into the new ..read more
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Dawn of a Decade: The Top Ten Tech Policy Issues for the 2020s
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
Microsoft President, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne writing at LinkedIn. Continue reading HERE. I think that ubiquitous global broadband will introduce some serious tech issues not covered in the list above.  For example, this one is currently boiling to the surface. Elon Musk, SpaceX Unveil Latest Starlink Plans, Creating An Astronomical Emergency Despite warnings and protestations from astronomers and skywatchers, Starlink is moving fast and breaking things. Your thoughts on the issues. I have one to share after you have expressed your views. Please comment. View at Medium.com ..read more
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CNBC: Why SpaceX And Amazon Are Launching 42,000+ Satellites
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
Since the start of the space age, more than 8,800 objects have been launched into orbit, according to estimates from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. But in a few years, that number could increase significantly. Private companies plan to launch thousands of satellites to beam the internet to customers on Earth. SpaceX alone has announced plans to launch 42,000 satellites. If this happens, SpaceX will be responsible for about a fivefold increase in the number of spacecraft launched by all of humanity ..read more
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Satellite Mega-Constellations Stir a Debate Over Avoiding Catastrophic Orbital Crashes
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
GeekWire has the details: The retired commander of the U.S. Strategic Command says the tens of thousands of satellites that SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning to put into orbit over the next few years will require a new automated system for space traffic management — and perhaps new satellite hardware requirements as well. Retired Gen. Kevin Chilton laid out his ideas for dealing with potentially catastrophic orbital traffic jams at the University of Washington on Friday, during the inaugural symposium presented by UW’s Space Policy and Research Center. “We need to develop technologies th ..read more
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SpaceX Working on Fix for Starlink Satellites So They Don’t Disrupt Astronomy
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
Space News has the details: President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said the Starlink brightness problem caught the company by surprise LOS ANGELES — One of the Starlink satellites in the next batch of 60 that SpaceX plans to launch in late December will be treated with a special coating designed to make the spacecraft less reflective and less likely to interfere with space observations, SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Dec. 6. “We are going to get it done,” Shotwell said during a meeting with reporters at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne. SpaceX already has depl ..read more
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Starlink Update: Terminal Pre-Sales
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by Russ Steele
4y ago
According to an LA Times roundtable discussion with Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX CEO, there will be terminal pre-sale. When SpaceX’s broadband service starts mid-2020, the initial experience will be “bumpy,” company President Gwynne Shotwell said Friday. However, she said she expects SpaceX to mature as an internet service provider by 2021. The company will take pre-sales for customer service, similar to what fellow Elon Musk-led company Tesla Inc. has done for new vehicles, Shotwell said during a media roundtable at the company’s Hawthorne headquarters. And early customers will be part of that l ..read more
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