Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Starlink and the Seven Dwarfs

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In the 1960s, IBM dominated the computer market, which was often referred to as “IBM and the seven dwarfs.” IBM is prosperous today, but no ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Western LEO Satellite Internet Update: OneWeb, Telesat, Amazon Project Kuiper and IRIS²

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In an  earlier post ,  I updated the status of three Chinese low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet constellations. This one looks at four...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

SES's unique three-orbit satellite Internet strategy

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SES's three-orbit offering is unique. In 2021, OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson said , "Interoperability with GEO satellites must happen -...
Monday, September 01, 2025

Chinese LEO satellite Internet update

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China has pursued a strategy of  competition among government-owned organizations , and it initiated two government-owned constellation proj...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Starlink and the seven dwarfs

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This post has been superseded, see:  https://cis471.blogspot.com/2025/11/starlink-and-seven-dwarfs.html Source: ChatGPT In the 1960s, IBM do...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Estimating Guowang Internet service satellite mass with ChatGPT

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After searching for the mass of China's Guowang Internet-service larger satellites and finding nothing, I estimated it using ChatGPT. Si...
Monday, June 16, 2025

OneWeb can’t come close to replacing Starlink in Ukraine, but it could complement it.

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Elon Musk assured us that he would not stop the Starlink service in Ukraine . But, given his  feud with Trump , his  criticism of President ...