LEO mega-constellations are expected to deploy thousands of satellites to provide broadband services with data rates approaching several Gbps and latencies as low as 30–50 ms, significantly lower than traditional GEO satellites (500+ ms). Achieving 6G’s target of peak data rates up to 1 Tbps requires satellites to operate in high-frequency bands like Ka-band (26.5–40 …
IVO Quantum drive seems to be showing a reduced orbital decay. Around October 1, 2025, the rate of orbital decay has slowed. From Sept 23 to Oct 1, 2025 It dropped 900 meters in 8 days. From Oct 2 to Oct 9, 2025. It dropped 200 meters in 7 days. Semi Major Axis (SMA) – …
Tesla Fremont factory has 15 spherical community gateway receivers. The Starlink Community Gateways program is designed to deliver high-speed internet for businesses, remote and underserved areas. This program can provide symmetrical download and upload speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) per gateway. We don’t know if each spherical unit is a gateway …
SpaceX Starlink direct from satellite to cell phone Internet connection starts beta test in 3 days. Starlink direct from satellite to cell phone Internet connection starts beta test in 3 days https://t.co/ygAjtTN8SY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 24, 2025 T-Mobile is offering Starlink texting to cellphones, but it’s currently in a limited beta phase: T-Mobile …
The White House’s national security adviser said Wednesday that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden declassify all information that relates to serious national security threat. An anti-satellite nuclear weapon would likely be something that would generate an electromagnetic pulse. In 2018, …
SpaceX’s Starlink has launched a new Community Gateways program to deliver gigabit-speed and even 10 gigabit speed for internet connectivity to remote and underserved areas. It is for internet service providers (ISPs) and cost a $1.25 million upfront cost and $75,000 per month per gigabit per second. Ten gigabits per second would costs $750,000 per …
SpaceX has found its second partner for their upcoming Starlink-enabled direct satellite-to-cellular service. New Zealand’s telecommunications company, One NZ (formerly known as Vodafone), has announced it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to offer mobile coverage across the country, eliminating cellular dead zones. SpaceX announced the direct satellite-to-cellular service with T-mobile. T-Mobile has more than …
SpaceX Starlink V2 minis will be larger and more powerful than the Version 1.5 Starlink. SpaceX Starlink V2 mini will have more powerful phased array antennas and the use of E-band for backhaul—which will allow Starlink to provide ~4x more capacity per satellite than earlier iterations. SpaceX should launch the first Starlink V2 mini tomorrow. …
Lynk Global secured regulatory approval Sept. 16 to operate its initial cellphone-compatible constellation globally, although the startup needs to deploy more satellites and get landing rights before it can start services. There are many companies working on satellite direct to cellphone communication. For years, the world has satellite phones. The regular satellite phone business is …
Another NASA advanced concpet project is Cryospheric Quantum Rydberg Radar. This is especially interesting to Nextbigfuture because this overlaps with ColdQuanta’s QuantumRF work. Nextbigfuture interviewed ColdQuanta VP Max Perez about Atomic clocks and QuantumRF and Quantum computers. ColdQuanta has close to $100 million in funding and grants. ColdQuanta is doing advanced work with laser arrays …
US SpaceX Starlink users are getting 100 to 203 Mbps on downlink and around 15 to 33 Mbps on uplink. Latency varies between 20 to 45 milliseconds. There is a startup purchase cost for a Starlink terminal. The terminal costs $499. There about about 800-900 Starlink satellites currently and a full northern hemisphere deployment will …