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According to The Economist a company out of Atlanta, Georgia plans to launch an "airship satellite" stationed 13 miles off the ground to function as a cost-effective low-orbit satellite.
This "stratellite" certainly appears to be less expensive than the real low-orbit satellite WildBlue which is coming on line in 2005.
The airship could be used to light up cities with DSL-like bandwidth. At 13 miles, I suspect latency will be an issue. But it certainly is a convenient way of manufacturing the tallest tower in town and would make a nice platform for fixed wireless base stations. Perhaps TowerStream would be interested in such a service.
Thanks Chris for the heads up.
WildBlue is geosynchronous, not LEO. The difference being 200ms latency vs. 10ms. Iridium was a LEO constellation.
Permalink to CommentBTW, 13 miles high will hardly cause a latency issue. Even if the cell had a radius of 100 miles, you are talking 1ms latency due to propagation.
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