Canadian firm plans 78-satellite Net service

Awesome.

I wish I hadded me some intellegence to come up with that.

It's not an original idea. Can't recall the name but some other outfit tried to roll out low orbit sats about 10 years ago.
78 satellites is ambitious. The way launches have gone lately, the first ones would be dead before the last got launched!

Intuit launched a constellation of 66 satellites for cell phones, so it definitely can be done. When you need those bad boys put into orbit let us know.

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Why does a tax software company need a satellite cluster? And since you guys refused to put Radarsat-2 into orbit, we'll probably ask the Russians again.

We really need that much satellites over the polar circle ?

Good to see a Canadian company being innovative!



It's to cover the entire planet, not just the polar regions.

They are much smaller than your picture implies. And yes, we do. Think about all the northern communities that can't get high speed, or even decent dial up internet.

Have a look at NASA's J-Track 3d, to see 900 of the estimated 25,000 objects tracked in Earth's orbit. 78 more won't be a big deal.

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html

Ah yes Iridium on intuit. My bad. And not letting the Russians track the satellites?

They are much smaller than your picture implies. And yes, we do. Think about all the northern communities that can't get high speed, or even decent dial up internet.

Have a look at NASA's J-Track 3d, to see 900 of the estimated 25,000 objects tracked in Earth's orbit. 78 more won't be a big deal.

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html

Do you have any idea of the ping times thru satellite? Not a good solution for Internet woes.

You make a very good point. One reason Iridium didn't attract more customers was its network bandwidth is usually less than 20 kb/s

http://www.mailasail.com/Support/Iridium-Bandwidth

They are much smaller than your picture implies. And yes, we do. Think about all the northern communities that can't get high speed, or even decent dial up internet.

Have a look at NASA's J-Track 3d, to see 900 of the estimated 25,000 objects tracked in Earth's orbit. 78 more won't be a big deal.

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html

Do you have any idea of the ping times thru satellite? Not a good solution for Internet woes.
Exactly. My brother lives on a small mountain top in the Rockies and has sat internet. Of course that's when he can actually get a signal.

They are much smaller than your picture implies. And yes, we do. Think about all the northern communities that can't get high speed, or even decent dial up internet.

Have a look at NASA's J-Track 3d, to see 900 of the estimated 25,000 objects tracked in Earth's orbit. 78 more won't be a big deal.

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html

Do you have any idea of the ping times thru satellite? Not a good solution for Internet woes.

These sats are proposed as LEO, or less than 600 miles, not the 12,000 needed for geo sync orbits. Which means ping is 12ms round trip. Some of the copper phone lines in northern communities are so noisy that you can't get a modem connection at any speed. 12ms is a heck of a lot better than that.

They are much smaller than your picture implies. And yes, we do. Think about all the northern communities that can't get high speed, or even decent dial up internet.

Have a look at NASA's J-Track 3d, to see 900 of the estimated 25,000 objects tracked in Earth's orbit. 78 more won't be a big deal.

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack ... ack3D.html

Do you have any idea of the ping times thru satellite? Not a good solution for Internet woes


I have a damn good idea, as I'm on sat internet here. I pay $60.00 per mo, and quite happy to pay that as opposed to $15.00 per mo for local dial-up! The only draw-back that I know of, is the fact that I can't effectivley use 'Majic jack' because of the 1-2 sec delay in phone conversations'.