Today's Reading List: Space Internet (2024-01-31)

delyan · February 1, 2024, 6:16am

researching what folks in rural US areas are using for internet - it turns out there have been 2 choices in the past decade:
- HughesNet - satellites are positioned in a geostationary orbit approximately 35k kilometers (22k miles) above the Earth’s equator
- Viasat - same as HughesNet
Project Kiuper is very interesting
- Amazon confirms 100% success rate for Project Kuiper protoflight mission
- the race is on to build the first complete optical inter-satellite link (OISL) constellation: Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers - IEEE Spectrum

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