Teledesic: Fiber in the Sky

• Applications

  • Voice, data, video-conferencing, high-performance Internet access

• Constellation

  • 840 LEO satellites
  • Est. Cost $9B

• Mostly fixed users

• “On-demand” channel rates from 16 Kbps to 2.048 Mbps

• Ka band (30 GHz) to get needed bandwidth

• Key investment partners are Craig McCaw and Bill Gates

• Motorola working on a similar system: M-Star

• Service: est. 2002

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