[amsat-bb] Get ready for more space junk

[Eric Garner]

shades of iridium and teledesic

-Eric KI7LTT


On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:31 AM Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

>
> Everyone is rushing to put The Cloud into LEO, it seems.
>
> This morning's WSJ: "Microsoft Teams With Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Push
> Cloud Battle With Amazon Into Orbit"
>
> https://tinyurl.com/y4q6uy5w
>
> > Microsoft would help connect and deploy new services using swarms of
> > low-orbit spacecraft being proposed by SpaceX, and more traditional
> > fleets of satellites circling the earth at higher altitudes.
> > Microsoft’s initiative targeting commercial and government space
> > businesses, formally launched Tuesday, comes about three months after
> > Amazon Web Services, the e-retailer’s cloud unit, disclosed its
> > space-focused effort.
>
> Shorter story here, too:
>
>
> https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/microsoft-teams-with-elon-musks-spacex-to-push-cloud-battle-with-amazon-into-orbit
>
> --- Zach
> N0ZGO
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--Eric
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Eric Garner