solar power equipment); Hyperloop (a
concept tube transport
that will hurtle passengers from Los Angeles
to San Francisco in
roughly half an hour, at
a tearing 598 m.p.h.)
And now, he’s fallen
hard for the notion of
bringing
high-speed
internet (repeat: highspeed) to everyone,
everywhere, through a
swarm of 4,000 miniature Sputniks, buzzing
around in low Earth
orbit—just 750 miles up
in the sky. Greg Wyler
of OneWeb has plans
to put up a smaller
fleet of 648. His project is expected to be
up and running before
the end of the decade
and is expected to cost
$2 billion.
Keeping the satellites wheeling closer to
home will reduce the
lag by a wide margin:
to a mere 0.006 seconds. On the downside, the area covered
by each will be very
Photo credit:OneWeb
OneWeb Satellite Drawing
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