'WorldVu Satellites' 700 sat global internet - Greg Wyler and Elon Musk

Post date: Nov 10, 2014 11:4:10 PM

WorldVu Satellites owned by Greg Wyler and SES of Luxembourg are working on a plan to launch hundreds of satellites to provide high-speed data services globally. WorldVu Satellites controls a large block of radio spectrum in the Ku band for communicating in the microwave range of between 12 and 18 GHz.

WorldVu’s current "constellation" design includes around 700 satellites using the Ku-band orbiting between 800 and 950 kilometers above Earth in polar orbits starting in 2019, each weighing no more than 250 pounds and cost $1 million each, About half the weight and cost of current communications satellites.

WorldVu Satellites with SpaceX and Founder Elon Musk may build a factory to make the satellites, either in Florida or Colorado, Elon is fast gaining expertise in both streamlining and manufacturing not just in SpaceX but with Tesla with its Cars and its new battery "Giga Factory" while Greg Wyler is still a major share holder of O3b Networks that he founded in 2007 now with 8 Satellites providing Internet coverage brings with him the expertise of Brian Holz(CTO) and David Bettinge as well.

but as of yet there is neither a formal relationship between the companies nor any agreement to launch satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.

There is a need for developing countries to avoid the high cost of laying fibre cables to get online, particularly in Africa and south-east Asia, This would lead to a dramatic increase in internet access across the globe.

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stratosolar commented: "The public focus of these efforts at the moment is on the satellite to ground links that provides Internet access to the developing world, but the implications of the technology are potentially far more significant than that. The point to point communication links between satellites together form a private, high bandwidth, global, secure, reliable, backbone communications network that is independent of any nation. Based on free space optical (FSO) links and/or high frequency point to point microwave links the bandwidth of this backbone in space could eventually surpass that of the terrestrial internet backbone. Nations can control communications from the satellites to the ground but not point to point communication between satellites."