{"id":35184,"date":"2017-03-09T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/massive-commercial-space-push-and-a-variety-of-new-robotic-capabilities-could-self-supporting-and-rapidly-growing-space-economy"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:46:31","slug":"massive-commercial-space-push-and-a-variety-of-new-robotic-capabilities-could-self-supporting-and-rapidly-growing-space-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/massive-commercial-space-push-and-a-variety-of-new-robotic-capabilities-could-self-supporting-and-rapidly-growing-space-economy","title":{"rendered":"Massive commercial space push and a variety of new robotic capabilities could self supporting and rapidly growing space economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yLjxoscCi0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/03\/total-global-satellite-plans-could-have.html\" target=\"blank\">Several companies will collectively be launching about 20,000 satellites over the next few years.<\/a> SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat, O3b Networks and Theia Holdings \u2014 all told the FCC they have plans to field constellations of V-band satellites in non-geosynchronous orbits to provide communications services in the United States and elsewhere. So far the V-band spectrum of interest, which sits directly above Ka-band from about 37 GHz to the low 50 GHz range, has not been heavily employed for commercial communications services.<\/p>\n<p>* SpaceX, for example, proposes a \u201cVLEO,\u201d or V-band low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 7,518 satellites to follow the operator\u2019s initially proposed 4,425 satellites that would function in Ka- and Ku-band.<\/p>\n<p>* Boeing has a proposed global network of about 3000 satellites.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/03\/massive-commercial-space-push-and.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/03\/massive-commercial-space-push-and.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several companies will collectively be launching about 20,000 satellites over the next few years. SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat, O3b Networks and Theia Holdings \u2014 all told the FCC they have plans to field constellations of V-band satellites in non-geosynchronous orbits to provide communications services in the United States and elsewhere. So far the V-band spectrum of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35184","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=35184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35184\/revisions\/48586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}