Aren’t these all launched into orbit by space X?
Great idea, but I don’t see it going anywhere when their competitor can throttle their growth.
Keep on dreaming and wait for another 5-8y until this is actually comparable in terms of bandwidth and latency to Starlink in certain regions. You need a fuckton of satellites up there. Building is one thing. Having a payload slot on a carrier is the way more difficult part and one reason starlink was built so quickly. Their launch capacity is just insane. And if you don’t have your own space crafts, you just wait for a slot.
Didn’t read the article but they could be doing elliptical orbits.
Much more stable orbit (so longer lasting), but way less useful for equatorial countries.
“Ottawa-based Telesat says its low-Earth-orbit broadband satellite network will enter service in early 2028 and be available to allied nations, including Ukraine.”
Fuck ya! Go Canada!
early 2028
I fear this may be getting too late for Ukraine.
It’s faster than I expected, though.
This isn’t just something you can slap together over the weekend.
it was supposed to launch in 2026. it’s launching with SpaceX.
Telesat Lightspeed main focus is enterprise and defense clients though, they don’t plan to expand into direct consumer service which would require a larger deployment.
Still nice to have an alternative to Starlink for that purpose though.
Getting Canadian governments services off Musk’s platform (and out of his income stream) is a win by itself.
Musk can suck it.
Hell yes. Rare telecom win.
Yay, more space debris
It’s LEO so they’ll burn up after not too long. But that’s not good either- because all those toxic chemicals and components are left in the atmosphere.
Thank you for being devil’s advocate. Don’t let the downvoting hypocrites get to you. Upvoted.
Satellite internet should be in geo, not leo
If fiber companies used 1% of the money we throw at them to actually build fiber, sattelite internet would never need to exist.
Its the most centralised, short term, low speed, expansive option possible and we are choosing it.
Fibre doesn’t work in airplanes or remote areas. Ukraine can’t use fibre in its very long range drones (they do for the short range ones).
There different use cases. That said, I still agree with you, we should have more fibre.
I agree-ish, wartime is something else, but if we have fiber up in Hudson bay we really don’t need-need starlink anywhere in 2026 (other than where we’ve dragged our feet getting fiber).
airplanes could use an elliptical sattelite for their high speed, low latency requirments. Personally though any connection more than a high orbit satellite provides is a nice to have, but not safety critical by any means.
Plus LEO is just intentionally wasteful, I wouldn’t be surprised if starlibk was a money hole without its military contracts.
