Samsung proposes 'space internet' of 4,600 orbital satellites for global, cheap web access

Charlee Gothard
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Too many people, not enough bandwidth as Samsung looks to the heavens for worldwide internet provision

Samsung has put forward plans for a "space internet", consisting of 4,600 low earth orbit (LEO) micro-satellites with a capacity of one zetabyte per month of data for the entire planet. The syst...

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