trumpdisasterprez
Oct 12, 12:32 AM
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This technology is from the 1990s. By a bunch of boomers.
Founded in 1990 by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw and backed by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Teledesic aimed to solve global connectivity.
At the time, traditional communications satellites sat in Geostationary Orbit (GEO), 36,000 kilometers above Earth. This distance created terrible latency (lag). Teledesic proposed an entirely different architecture: a constellation of hundreds of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), just 700 kilometers up.
The system promised "fiber-optic-like" speeds, global coverage, and low latency, targeting remote schools, businesses, and regions that ground-based cables couldn't reach.
The audacity of the project attracted nearly
$900 million in funding from an elite roster of investors, including:
• Bill Gates (Microsoft)
• Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular)
• Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (
$200 million)
• Boeing (
$100 million)
• Motorola (
$750 million)
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