05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... community to think what means more: ground-based astronomy and traditional views of the night sky, or cheaper internet from space,” he says. Gallozzi and colleagues state it is absolutely necessary to put in place all possible measures to protect...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... notes its customers plan to use the smaller satellites for a variety of humanitarian causes, including providing broadband internet access to remote areas; collecting more accurate weather data; and identifying asteroids that could represent threats...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... accurate tracking and low-cost data transfer services, which can be a particular problem in remote locations where Internet access can be expensive or impossible (if there is no available coverage). Fleet says the main applications for its small...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
..., multiple CubeSat swarms consisting of smaller individual networks (within each swarm) can be analogous to the structure of the Internet. Essentially, there can be an infinite number of satellites and ground stations that can enter and gain access...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... Falcon 9 rockets for launch. It plans to offer global internet coverage and to have the network operating by 2024. OneWeb ... issues that might slow down adoption of new technologies. The Internet of Things is a great example of this. It is ...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
...emerging technologies like 5G, Blockchain and the power of the Internet of Things (IoT). SpaceX’s news has also not ... that it would look into making future Starlink internet communications satellites less shiny to lower their reflectivity or "albedo...
