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Skibane
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Aug 26, 2022

New smartphone direct-to-Starlink satellite service

Uses customer's existing smartphone and firmware - No hardware or software updates required. Passes signals directly between the smartphone and Starlink satellites - No terrestrial cell towers requ...
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Skibane
Explorer II
Aug 27, 2022
As mentioned in the Ars Technica article previously posted, AST Space Mobile is also working on a satellite design that "talks" directly to terrestrial smartphones.

Like the SpaceX scheme, it doesn't require any software or hardware upgrades to the smartphones.

Unlike the SpaceX scheme, there is no plan to deploy up to 30,000 of them.

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