Experts estimate that only a third of the inhabitants of our planet can use the Internet.Google plans to rectify the situation with the help of soaring through the sky wireless access points. The company SpaceX wants to create a network of low-Earth orbit communication satellites, and according to the newspaper Reuters, on similar projects already working in Apple.
Conference on Satellite 2015 Vice President of Business Development and Director of Strategy Boeing Network & Space Systems Jim Simpson noted that in the near future they can start producing satellites to major technology companies. Although Boeing does not give the names of potential customers, they can become a corporation Apple, Google, Facebook, and even Amazon.
The main drawback of satellite Internet is its high cost compared with terrestrial systems, from this point of view is more favorable construction of geostationary satellites capable of providing higher bandwidth connections, notes thk . They are more expensive to produce, but the company will be able to save on the spacecraft, system maintenance.
In Boeing expect stable demand for geostationary satellites, the company afford to produce up to two dozen such vehicles per year. In addition, they are ready to produce equipment for shipment to low Earth orbit.
On Sunday, a private US company SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket, which put into space two commercial telecommunications satellites Boeing Satellite Systems International. These machines weighing 2 tons were produced for the two satellite operators - the French company Eutelsat and Hong Kong Asia Broadcast Satellite.
Boeing first sent into orbit satellites with exclusively by electric motors, namely ion. This innovation has significantly reduced weight vehicles, removing the bulk of their structure fuel tanks, necessary for satellites chemical engines.