One needs specialized gear to tap into the satphone network, few of us can justify the expense of satellite phone service ... But they believe with even a small constellation of perhaps a half ...

Lower-cost, space-based mobile phone services will soon be a reality ... It is "all about helping the small satellite community get into orbit," says Dan Hart, Virgin Orbit's president and chief ...

Satellite phones are a boon for those who work or travel ... then you may simply need a small data allowance to send text or emergency messages. “If you merely want to keep in touch in an ...

A satellite phone, sometimes called a satphone ... If you can visualize the Earth’s surface as a giant grid, then each small unit grid can be considered an individual cell.

Finland’s ReOrbit is developing a small communications satellite for GEO and has signed a contract with an unnamed Malaysian ...

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Users on the ground access the broadband signals using a kit sold by SpaceX. The kit contains a small satellite dish with a mounting tripod, a wifi router, cables and a power supply, according to ...

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[SignalsEverywhere] has a lot of satellite ... so small antennas can work quite well and are often as much mechanical designs as electrical. The L band contains everything from GPS to phone ...

Qualcomm has revealed Snapdragon Satellite , the company's ... able to connect directly to existing cell phones. The service will use a dedicated "small slice" of the PCS band (the G block of ...

Google has funded FireSat launch. The constellation of satellites in LEO will help monitor, detect, and track wildfires.

Compressing these into packages small enough to convey over ... On the sender’s phone, the words “iMessage. Satellite” ...