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Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15Elon Musk is moving forward with space based internet service...
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Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15While Google and facebook are out: http://qz.com/422775/facebook-and-google-are-out-of-the-space-race/
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LeopoldS on 11 Jun 15reading the qz article, it is not clear to me that google dropped out as one of the main investors in SpaceX? did I miss something?
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jcunha on 12 Jun 15I attended a presentation by H. Hemmati, formerly at NASA's JPL, now at Facebook working to "connect the unconnected" during a panel session of the Workshop "Shining light on future space optical communications". I gather that they are targeting a combined strategy of HAP (with solar powered planes at 20-25 km), balloons and satellites. The rationale behind is that each solution is best suited for different population density zones, i.e. satellites while expensive (total cost of 100MUSD after Hemmati) are the only way to provide internet in remote zones, while balloons seem to be one inexpensive solution for densely populated areas. Funfact: he mentioned that the main drawback will be some crashes of HAP elements...
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jcunha on 31 Jul 15Facebook announced they are ready to test of of their High Altitude Platform element, a drone of the size of a Boeing 737. See the new here http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-ready-giant-drone-internet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter. It seemed interesting for me that they are developing also a reliable optical communication between this element and scattered ground stations.
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Thijs Versloot on 31 Jul 15Nice link, that thing is huge and I would love to see a drone that size fly. Also, Facebook's Aerospace Team? :)