Nasa plans 5G comms 'nanosats'

Iain Thomson
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'Constellations' of tiny satellites to provide global communications network

Nasa is developing satellites weighing as little as 5kg for a future global telecoms network. The so-called 'nanosats' would be used to set up a fifth-generation network hosted in low Earth orb...

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