Let us first know what satellite Internet
It is wireless Internet that is broadcast through satellites orbiting the Earth for the purpose of providing global coverage that allows connection to the Internet quickly and without any interruption and in any place using radio waves via satellite.Information about satellite Internet and its starting operations:
The emergence of satellite Internet is linked to the emergence of the Internet and the “Web” in general. But the development of this technology did not receive the same attention compared to other traditional networks, and the matter remained in the 1990s as just an experiment and the matter disappeared after the 1990s, but it returned in 2003 with Teledesic as one of the pioneers of the technology, which tried to launch the project many times until it exceeded hundreds of low-orbit satellites. To secure connection to the Internet, but the matter failed repeatedly with the company, and it is not just them, such as the companies "Iridium", "Global Star", and "ICO". That is, we can know the primary problem of activating the satellite Internet, which is satellites, as preparing a satellite costs millions of dollars, and therefore must be overcome. To this problem as an initial solution, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came up with by launching satellites capable of going and returning from space, which Elon Musk actually succeeded in activating despite the failure of the matter several times, but SpaceX began to complete its work until it reached the year 2020. The American company SpaceX prepared. For this reason, it ordered the launch of two additional packages of satellites within the framework of its Starlink project.
It is estimated that each package contains sixty individual satellites. It is estimated that the company plans to send an estimated 12,000 small satellites in the future and reach 42,000 satellites around the Earth. The highly ambitious American billionaire Elon Musk seeks to turn the global balance around providing the Internet. High-speed at any point on the surface of the Earth after completing approximately 24 launches, but Spacex is not the only company planning this...
Companies that have begun planning to join the satellite Internet...
In addition to the leading company SpaceX in the field of satellite Internet, we have...
- China Satellite Network Group - The Chinese state-owned satellite network group, which will seek to launch low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into space, and broadcast Internet services to anywhere on the planet Earth. The company falls under the category of new infrastructure technologies, which are scheduled to lead China in the future in the field of satellite Internet.Specifically to obtain greater privileges in this field controlled by StarLink
- OneWeb, which is based in Britain and is considered one of the Airbus branches of the aircraft industry, also has more than 600 satellites in low Earth orbit (160 - 2,000 above the Earth’s surface).
- The newest and strongest competitor in the space race is “Amazon”, which launched the Amazon company specializing in Internet technology and cloud computing within its project known as “Kuiper”, which aims, unlike any other company, to provide Internet supplies at high frequencies and speeds at reasonable prices different from what is available now, as it targeted communities deprived of Internet services are provided under the Cooper satellite constellation of 3,236 satellites to provide effective and reliable coverage of Internet transmission at wide frequencies. The company plans to invest up to 10 billion dollars.
This project began after Amazon conducted research and development beginning in 2018 and then obtained a license from the US Federal Communications Commission to deploy and operate Project Kuiper satellites, which prepares ground infrastructure that includes gateway antennas that send and receive customer data in a secure manner, satellites to transmit data traffic, and stations. Customers for the Internet transmission service at wide frequencies until the Internet speed reaches 1 gigabyte per second. Prices have not been revealed yet, but its founder, Jeff Bezos, confirms that it provides satellite Internet at the lowest possible prices.
The fate of the satellite Internet:
The matter reached the point that approximately 50% of all active satellites orbiting the Earth had been launched, and the company, which had more than 1.5%, requested SpaceX as well as permission to launch the rest of its satellites, which widened the gap between Amazon and SpaceX in the space race, but what It has become certain that satellite Internet has been provided in some areas, meaning that it has become a reality, but it will take some time until it is actually spread to everyone.Disadvantages of satellite internet...
It is true that the imagination of the satellite Internet has become very close to us, and despite its modernity and advantages, there are some disadvantages that no company has been able to overcome so far, which are...
1- The first problem, which has not been overcome yet, is that it is a very expensive and expensive service, which makes it difficult to subscribe to it until now, despite its availability.
2- It differs from the regular Internet in that the transmission is easily affected by the weather, as it relies on radio waves to deliver the Internet.
3-The presence of physical obstacles such as trees and buildings in front of the transmitting and receiving antenna.
4- It applies a fair usage policy, which forces you to apply usage within a certain range. If it is exceeded, the internet speed will slow down.