How Billionaires Are Pushing The Future of Satellite Internet

Описание: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have been at odds over satellite internet for years. In this video, we explore the foundation for satellite internet and how it has the potential to help millions of people around the world for different reasons.

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Produced by:
Dhruv Chanekar
Tanmay Gera

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INTRO:

The first commercial satellite was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962. Developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories for AT&T, the Telstar 1 was the first of its kind. The satellite was the world's first active communications satellite and the world's first commercial payload in space. Within two days of its launch, the satellite relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal. This novel piece of space tech pioneered an era of providing global information via satellites.

Over the next few decades, many other television satellites were launched into space providing people across the world to connect to global channels. With the invention of the internet, the next step in satellite communications became internet satellites. Companies such as HughesNet, Viasat, and PanAmSat became major competitors in the space. All of these players produced traditional internet satellites, which sit at an altitude of 22,000 miles from the Earth's surface. They rotate with the Earth and hover in the same point on the equator.

In recent years, companies such as Starlink and Project Kuiper have also joined the space wanting to bring better speeds to customers. Now, newer generation internet satellites such as the ones from Starlink and Project Kuiper sit 300 miles above the Earth's surface. These satellites are launched into low-Earth orbit and due to being relatively close to the earth, these satellites can provide users with quicker internet speeds and lower latency than previous generations. Advances in satellite receivers and satellites themselves have allowed for faster search speeds, much more comparable to what cable internet currently provides. However, that being said, satellite internet is not as fast your regular cable internet. In fact, newer gen satellite internet can produce speeds of 100-200 megabits per second, while fiber can produce 940 megabits per second. So, why is there all this buzz around satellite internet?

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