OneWeb’s constellation of low-earth orbit satellites will offer service in Canada’s North starting in 2020, the company said Wednesday. It will launch with 16 hours of service a day by the end of 2020, with 24 hours of continuous coverage expected by the first quarter of 2021, according to a company spokesperson. OneWeb said in a press release the system will have a capacity of 375 Gbps, which it says will be enough to give “fiber-like connectivity to hundreds of thousands of homes, planes, and boats, connecting millions across the Arctic.” “The dense, flexible coverage...
Three years after a number of big companies first announced they would launch global low-earth-orbit (LEO) systems that would provide internet connectivity to remote areas around the world, that space is getting crowded — including with some Canadian competition.
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Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has put a moratorium on the licensing of satellite spectrum used by commercial non-geostationary satellites. It said in a notice on its...
Some of the world’s most well-known investors, including Richard Branson and Elon Musk, are betting that new projects that involve putting thousands of satellites into low orbit will bring the...
