29-07-2021 14:16 via thenextweb.com

It’s not just Bezos and Musk muscling in on the satellite-internet space race

While billionaires battle to dominate the nascent suborbital tourism industry, the satellite-internet space race is also heating up. Amazon’s Project Kuiper, SpaceX’s Starlink, and Softbank-backed OneWeb now have another challenger in the competition to deliver fast, low-latency internet from space: Immarsat. The UK-based firm plans to launch a network of low-earth-orbit satellites that will provide next-generation 5G services, Bloomberg reports. “It brings multiple netwo
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