Satellite for iPhones: GlobalStar gives initial indication for the construction of a new generation

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Satellite for iPhones: GlobalStar gives initial indication for the construction of a new generation


Satellite network operator is a Canadian company in Globstar MDA Space Commission was commissioned to create “the next generation of Leo Nakshatra”. Leo means low earth orbit, ie a close -up orbit. The total order price is $ 1.1 billion (CAD). The MDA space should manufacture “the next generation Leo Nakshatra”, that is, a next generation satellite constellation. Details about the Arora satellites did not give MDA, except for the expansion that they are equipped with “software-defined radio”.

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Partners implemented an initial contract in November 2023, with the MDA not yet allowed to announce the customer’s name. At that time, 350 million Canadian dollars swept away. Now about 750 million CADs for 1.1 billion CADs.

The details of the sobber numbers and the only torn project should be more than it appears. First, a small background: Globalstar currently operates a network of 25 Leo satellites that belong to the second generation; Due to technical defects, the life of the first generation was low, so that it would now be abandoned and replaced. With the second generation, Globalstar provides its own satellite receiver and iPhones of Apple from model 14 since 2022.

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In late October 2024, Apple invested $ 1.5 billion in a global star, what Only as part of a compulsory message for stock exchange Became public. Apple bought 20 percent shares in Global Star in $ 400 million. Apple kept a new network for a new network for a new network for mobile satellite services and a new network for a new satellite services with an extended floor infrastructure and MSS licensing “kept $ 1.1 billion as an advance payment for” a new network for “. Apple has also secured 85 percent of satellite capabilities for its needs.

Neither the Global Star nor the MDA and of course Apple have given details of the “next generation of constellations” so far. However, some people suggest that multi -arbitrary megoconstals means that it means a multi -orbital mega constellation in the final expansion of 3080 satellites. Globalstar is already so 2020 in federal network agency Some details were registered and expanded by some details about radio frequencies. It should unlock Apple through partner Globalstar for contestants such as Starlink, Ast Spacemobile or Spacesail, supplies commercially available smartphones in radio clad with broadband services and also enables the image telephony. AST promises the most advanced technology to date, with a 5G technology with 5G technology, currently reaching 120 MBIT/s in tests with commercially available Android smartphones and Vodafone SIM cards.

Customers of T-Mobile USA (a subsidiary of Duthe Telecom) can already use Starlink Service, which bestly distributes 18 MBIT/s and modified LTE as part of an open beta test Base is based on stations. At the turn of AST spacemobile 2025/26, he wants to start a public business with Vodafone with other things. Overview of other current events around the Leo satellites and smartphones will appear in the upcoming C’T version 05/2025 on page 44.


(DZ)

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