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OneWeb founder wants to flood space with 300,000 satellites from Rwanda
source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/11/07/oneweb-founder-wants-flood-space-300000-satellites-rwanda/
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OneWeb founder wants to flood space with 300,000 satellites from Rwanda
Rwanda’s space agency is aiming to take on Elon Musk’s Starlink
7 November 2021 • 9:00am
The founder of the taxpayer-backed broadband operator OneWeb is masterminding a controversial plan by Rwanda to lay claim to valuable swathes of the skies and scatter Earth's orbit with hundreds of thousands more satellites, it has been claimed.Greg Wyler, a former Google executive, is understood to be behind a filing to the United Nations by Rwanda’s space agency that calls for 327,000 small satellites in a low orbit to create a global wireless broadband network to challenge OneWeb and Elon Musk’s Starlink....
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