{"id":71355,"date":"2017-07-28T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-rural-areas"},"modified":"2017-07-28T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:04:53","slug":"a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-rural-areas","title":{"rendered":"A Startup Wants to Launch Over 700 Satellites to Bring Internet to Rural Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-rural-areas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A startup called OneWeb aims to make access to the internet (which the U.N. has deemed a basic human right) more widely available to those living in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/oneweb.world\/\">satellite internet startup<\/a> called OneWeb wants to make internet access available to all. From rural neighborhoods to completely remote communities, the company want to make sure that the internet isn\u2019t just a luxury afforded to those who live in certain locations. Thanks in part to backing from Richard Branson of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the Virgin Group<\/a>, as well as Airbus and Qualcomm, OneWeb hopes to launch 720 satellites that would provide internet to places on Earth that are normally far out of reach.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-satellites-to-bring-internet-to-rural-areas\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-startup-wants-to-launch-over-700-sate...ral-areas\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A startup called OneWeb aims to make access to the internet (which the U.N. has deemed a basic human right) more widely available to those living in rural areas. A satellite internet startup called OneWeb wants to make internet access available to all. From rural neighborhoods to completely remote communities, the company want to make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71355","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}