Silicon Valley's latest frontier is the edge of space itself.
O3b Satellites mounted to launch dispenser
Google recently hired O3b Networks Ltd's founder and chief technology
officer. This is the kind of satellite they make.
O3b Networks Ltd
The tubes that make up the internet cover much of the world, but not all of
it. Google has announced plans to get internet to where the tubes can't reach,
with three technologies: balloons,high-altitude solar-powered drones,
and the latest, satellites in space.
Google would not be the first to use satellites to cover the earth in
internet. The early dotcom boom of the late 1990s saw companies like Iridium,
Globalstar, and Teledisc market satellite phones and promise internet
service, but most failed or declared
bankruptcy in the face of tremendous initial costs and poor
management. In 2010, the Pentagon tested routing internetthrough
a satellite. Google's own satellite team will be headed by eminent alumni of
satellite internet company O3b.
It is too soon to say whether Google's balloons, drones, or satellites will successfully expand internet access to the parts of the world without it. Whichever works, it is clear that Google is willing to go to the edge of space and beyond to spread the internet beyond the terrestrial tyranny of tubes.
It is too soon to say whether Google's balloons, drones, or satellites will successfully expand internet access to the parts of the world without it. Whichever works, it is clear that Google is willing to go to the edge of space and beyond to spread the internet beyond the terrestrial tyranny of tubes.
Source : http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/google-will-deploy-1-billion-worth-satellites-spread-internet-access?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=google-will-deploy-1-billion-worth-of-satellites-to-spread-internet-access
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