{"id":24523,"date":"2016-04-10T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/google-invents-global-communications-satellite-constellation-that-could-protect-users-from-wire-taps-beyond"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:27:01","slug":"google-invents-global-communications-satellite-constellation-that-could-protect-users-from-wire-taps-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/google-invents-global-communications-satellite-constellation-that-could-protect-users-from-wire-taps-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Google Invents Global Communications Satellite Constellation that could protect users from Wire Taps &amp; Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-invents-global-communications-satellite-constellation-that-could-protect-users-from-wire-taps-beyond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Google has been filing patents for the design of an advanced high-altitude balloon network for some time now (examples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlymobile.com\/2013\/11\/googles-high-altitude-balloon-network-called-project-loon-is-revealed-in-new-patent.html\">one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlymobile.com\/2014\/01\/google-seeks-patents-for-varying-aspects-of-project-loon.html\">two<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlymobile.com\/2014\/03\/googles-ceo-larry-page-talks-about-project-loon-more-at-ted.html\">CEO Larry Page talking up Project Loon with Charlie Rose<\/a> at a TED Conference, it appears that they\u2019re simultaneously dreaming of another Moon Shot project related to a communications satellite constellation wrapped around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/11\/10\/7190057\/nasa-leases-moffett-airfield-to-google-60-years\">Google signed a 60 year lease with NASA<\/a> airfield and hangers. The Verge reported at that time that \u201cGoogle may use Hangar One, as well as two sequentially named hangars on the airfield, as a space for research, development, assembly, and testing of <strong>technology related to robotics, aviation, space exploration, and other new fields<\/strong> once it moves in. Perhaps Google\u2019s recent patent application discovered at the US Patent Office for a new satellite constellation is one of the many projects that they have on their drawing board.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s patent FIG. 1B noted below shows us a schematic view of exemplary orbital paths or trajectories of the satellites in their proposed system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2016\/04\/google-invents-global-communications-satellite-constellation-that-could-protect-users-from-wire-taps-beyond.html\">http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2016\/04\/google-i...eyond.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Google has been filing patents for the design of an advanced high-altitude balloon network for some time now (examples one and two) and CEO Larry Page talking up Project Loon with Charlie Rose at a TED Conference, it appears that they\u2019re simultaneously dreaming of another Moon Shot project related to a communications satellite constellation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56616,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions\/56616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}