• tal@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      Sounds like we’re going to have two and China is going to have two:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_internet_constellation

      Operational

      Megaconstellations

      • Amazon Leo — Amazon’s constellation will consist of 3,236 satellites operating in three orbital shells. Service began in 2025.
      • Guowang/SatNet — a Chinese megaconstellation project created by SatNet, a firm backed by the CAST.[43] it plans to be constituted of over 13,000 satellites by the project’s end.[44]
      • G60/Qianfan — a Chinese megaconstellation project developed by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) to deploy 14,000 satellites by 2030. The first stage consists of 1,296 satellites to provide global coverage; 648 of these are to be launched by the end of 2025 to provide regional network coverage. The first launch was on August 6, 2024.,[45] second batch of satellites were launched on 15 October 2024.
      • Starlink — a subsidiary of SpaceX, its satellite constellation provides high-speed Internet and some phone services. Regular service began in 2021.[46]
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        I’m less caught up on the planned non-US ones, but the Blue Origin one, which is also Bezos, will be real if he wants it to be.

        TeraWave — a Blue Origin project with 5280 satellites in LEO and 128 satellites in MEO with the first deployments planned for 2027.