{"id":103908,"date":"2020-03-18T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/space-startup-lynk-uses-satellite-to-send-text-message-to-unmodified-android-phone"},"modified":"2020-03-18T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:45:18","slug":"space-startup-lynk-uses-satellite-to-send-text-message-to-unmodified-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/space-startup-lynk-uses-satellite-to-send-text-message-to-unmodified-android-phone","title":{"rendered":"Space startup Lynk uses satellite to send text message to unmodified Android phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-startup-lynk-uses-satellite-to-send-text-message-to-unmodified-android-phone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An aerospace startup that plans to launch thousands of satellite \u201ccell towers\u201d into space says it has successfully sent a text message to a common Android smartphone using one of its satellites in orbit. The company claims it\u2019s the first time a text message has ever been sent to an unmodified mobile phone from space, and it demonstrates the technology needed to provide global cellphone connectivity from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/lynk.world\/\">behind the breakthrough space text is called Lynk<\/a>, which used to go by the name UbiquitiLink. Lynk is one of several space companies at the moment planning on building a constellation of thousands of satellites to provide some kind of connectivity to individuals on the ground. But rather than provide broadband internet coverage, Lynk is focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/2\/20746947\/ubiquitilink-satellite-cell-tower-space-mega-constellation\">providing cell service for the average mobile phone with its satellites<\/a>, without the need for customers to provide any extra hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aerospace startup that plans to launch thousands of satellite \u201ccell towers\u201d into space says it has successfully sent a text message to a common Android smartphone using one of its satellites in orbit. The company claims it\u2019s the first time a text message has ever been sent to an unmodified mobile phone from space, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}