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China’s drive to compete against Starlink for the future of orbital internet



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The country is heavily investing in its own low-earth orbit satellite constellations

Blaine Curcio

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There has been a wave of businesses over the past several years hoping to offer broadband internet delivered from thousands of satellites in low-earth orbit (LEO), providing coverage of most of the earth’s surface.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen excitement in the category. Companies and people that you have heard of — Bill Gates and Motorola, to name a few — invested billions of dollars into this business model two decades ago in an adventure that ended in many bankruptcies and very …

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