cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/12048737
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The cooperation agreement places an emphasis on defense technology and energy security. Under the new terms, Ukraine will expand its access to Finnish satellite capabilities through direct collaboration with telecommunications technology giant Nokia and satellite provider ICEYE.
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Earlier this month, ICEYE and Nokia announced a partnership to develop secure, sovereign and high-performance broadband low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications systems for governments, supporting missions from defense and border security to emergency services and disaster response. Built on trusted European technology, the jointly developed satellite communications systems will give nations ownership and control of satellites, ground segment and terminals.
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There’s still a tiny kink here, how do they get their infrastructure to space?
What kink? France has space launch capability. And Japan, which is still a good ally.
Neither of them have the capabilities to put up and maintain a network like that. Even if they could, itd be their capacity and more and they want to launch other things.
You need global coverage on any given orbit to ensure continuous service, and theyd need multiple rings to cover the entire area they need covered.
Thats a lot of satellites and launches.
Edit: if you didnt care about low latency you could do less satellites, but they need low latency for much of what they do.
You don’t need to cover the whole world, IRIS² is aiming for europe for example, we already have satellites and launch capability.
It’s not for next wednesday but we’re getting there, and in the meantime you’ll have coverage, albeit not perfect coverage. Yet.
