A startup space company has revealed that it is working on a project to connect Earth, the Moon and possibly Mars with a high-speed internet.
Dubbed Aquarian Space, the company has secured $650,000 in funding from Draper Associates and hopes to build the first communications system on the moon by 2024.
The company plans to bring high-speed internet between Earth, the Moon and Mars in the coming years, fast enough to stream 4K video.
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Aquarian Space CEO Kelly Larson said on the matter: “There were only 13 landers, orbiters and rovers on and around the moon in 2021, but that number will change rapidly by 2030, and the number is likely to rise to 200. Vehicle, this will create a lunar economy worth billions of dollars, however this will not happen without a reliable means of communication between the Earth and the Moon.”
According to Space.com, which published the news, the aforementioned company intends to develop a network of Solnet satellites, to launch the first of them in 2024, and this company will be able to secure Internet Its data transfer speed is up to 100 megabytes per second.