A small spacecraft system manufacturer has announced that they plan to put 78 small satellites into orbit to carry the internet.
Microsat Systems Canada Inc (MSCI) have called the project "CommStellation", and plan to deploy the system from 2014-2015. It will require six rockets to take the platforms to an altitude of 1,000km. From there, the network will act as backhaul, linking the traffic of local telecoms and internet service providers to the global fibre infrastructure.
It seems that there is a new wave of manufacturers recognising the fact that space may offer a simple solution to the bandwith problem facing the world.
David Cooper, President and CEO of MSCI, said that “There are immense backhaul shortages now and it's going to get worse”
CommStellation is planning something very similar to O3b, which is planning a constellation of eight internet backhaul satellites in a medium-Earth orbit (8,000km) around the equator. This system is also expected to start to roll out in the middle of the decade. However, CommStellation would be very much lower in the sky than O3b and would circle the Earth via the poles.
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