FILED - Satellite technology is enabling airlines to make internet available on flights, in what experts see as a potential gold mine for them. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
WASHINGTON: Anxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, revealed Project Kuiper: a plan to put 3,236 satellites in orbit to provide high-speed Internet across the globe.
Offering broadband Internet coverage to digital deserts is also the goal of the company OneWeb, which is set to start building two satellites a day this summer in Florida, for a constellation of over 600 expected to be operational by 2021.
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