Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone
| Date | 27th, Dec 2022 |
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| Source | IEEE Spectrum - Scientific and Educational Websites |
DESCRIPTION
In 2023, you or someone you know will be able to send a text message through space. Late in 2022, hardware behemoths Huawei and Apple released cellular telephones capable of texting on traditional satellite-communications networks. A pair of ambitious startups, AST SpaceMobile and Lynk Global, also started building new low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks designed to reach conventional 5G cellphones outside terrestrial coverage.