Buy This Satellite -- Bring Internet to Developing World

An online appeal to raise $150,000 to buy Terrestar-1 and rain bandwidth down on the Third World has already topped $16,000, despite the obstacles ahead of the project.

The plan is to buy Terrestar-1 off the bankrupt TerreStar satellite phone operation, then drive it round to somewhere over the developing world and offer internet access to the disenfranchised masses ... all of which sounds lovely until one takes a moment to think about the technical, logistical and financial issues involved.

Collected from: Crazed buy-a-satellite-for-the-poor scheme raises $16k • The Register

BUY THIS SATELLITE - Connect Everyone.

Bringing internet access to the people who need it most

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Help Buy a Satellite from a Bankrupt Telecom to Beam Free Web to the Developing World | Popular Science

Terrastar-1 This diagram shows how Terrastar-1 can beam the Web to handheld devices – in this case in North America. Ahumanright.org wants to buy Terrastar-1 from its parent company and move it to an orbit over a developing nation to provide free Internet to the population there. 

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Google's GeoEye-1 Satellite

GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.

clipped from wattsupwiththat.com Google Earth gets a new space eye clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com About the GeoEye-1 Satellite The GeoEye-1 Satellite sensor was developed by GeoEye and features the most sophisticated technology ever used in a commercial remote sensing system. GeoEye-1 is capable of acquiring image data at 0.41 meter panchromatic (B&W) and 1.65 meter multispectral resolution. It also features a revisit time of less than three days, as well as the ability to locate an object within just three meters of its physical location. This newly developed sensor is optimized for large projects, as it can collect over 350,000 square kilometers of pan-sharpened multispectral satellite imagery every day. clipped from wattsupwiththat.com clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com GeoEye-1 Satellite Images clipped from www.satimagingcorp.com » About the GeoEye-1 Satellite Sensor » Download the High Resolution Image » More Images from GeoEye-1 clipped from uk.youtube.com Launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite aboard a Delta II Rocket clipped from uk.youtube.com Breaking: Satellite for Google Earth Blasts off in Californi An unedited animation provided by GeoEye of the satellite and the means by which it scans images of earth.

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Missile Strikes Spy Satellite

clipped from www.nytimes.com Missile Strikes a Spy Satellite Falling From Its Orbit WASHINGTON — A missile interceptor launched from a Navy warship has struck a dying American spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon announced late Wednesday. Completing a mission in which an interceptor designed for missile defense was used for the first time to attack a satellite, the Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser, fired a single missile on Wednesday night. clipped from news.bbc.co.uk US missile hits 'toxic satellite' Operatives had only a 10-second window to hit the satellite - USA 193 - which went out of control shortly after it was launched in December 2006. Officials were worried its hydrazine fuel could do harm, but it is not yet known if the fuel tank was destroyed. The controversial operation has been criticised by China and Russia. Russia suspects the operation was a cover to test anti-satellite technology under the US missile defence programme. clipped from motls.blogspot.com