The startup has raised $650,000 in seed money and aims to launch a lunar satellite by 2024.
An early-stage space internet project just received $650,000 in seed funding to work on development and technical reviews to connect the Earth, moon and potentiallyAquarian Space announced the funding from Draper Associates Thursday as a step along its eventual goal to bringing high-speed internet between the Earth, the moon and Mars in future years, fast enough to stream 4K video. The company aims to deploy its first lunar communications system by 2024.
The startup's vision is to create what it calls Solnet, built on"commercial high data rate, high-speed delivery satellite networks" with speeds of 100 megabits per second, Aquarian said in a statement. "In 2021 there were 13 landers, orbiters and rovers on and around the moon," Kelly Larson, CEO of Aquarian Space, said in the statement."By 2030, we will have around 200, creating a multibillion dollar lunar economy. But this can’t happen without solid, reliable Earth-to-moon communications."
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