How internet from space works: Internet-connected ground stations communicate with satellites through radio signals. In the near future, those
satellites will communicate with each other through lasers. Then the signal is sent to the antenna on a home. illustration by mario zucca
Cybersecurity specialist Luke McOmie lives entirely off-grid on the side of a mountain in Colorado, where there’s no cell service or landline broadband internet. Yet he recently gave a talk at a convention hosted in Japan on the lethality of drones. He was live via satellite — his own personal satellite internet connection, that is.
With a constellation of hundreds of satellites, and speeds comparable to U.S. broadband, the Starlink service lets Mr. McOmie do his job despite being in the middle of nowhere.
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