SpaceX Competitor Creating ‘Cell Tower’ In Space

SpaceX competitor's next frontier is cell towers in space

Share to twitterSmall satellites deploy from the International Space Station, courtesy of a company called Nanoracks. Co-founder Charles Miller is now focusing on even smaller satellites for spaceflight.Hot off the success of co-founding a company to commercialize the space station, Charles Miller's next frontier is going head-to-head with SpaceX’s quest to provide constant cell connectivity in orbit.

While SpaceX plans on spending billions of dollars to launch 12,000 satellites for its Starlink constellation, Miller says he can improve cell service in rural America or continental Africa for much less money and using smaller satellites. Because there are few cell towers in these regions, his company Lynk aims to recreate cell towers in orbit instead.

Its secret sauce is repurposing the base station software in the cell tower that talks to your phone, including tricking conventional phones into accepting talking to space-based"cell towers" as far as 375 miles away.

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