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Satellites - Direct-to-device connectivity - D2D satellite - Satellite communications - Mobile services - 6G

Your phone is about to stop having dead zones

Satellites could soon bring a signal to almost any smartphone, but turning near-universal coverage into reliable high-speed internet will be much harder.

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Satellites - Space technology - Falcon 9 - Space X - Rockets - Launch capacity

The coming rocket shortage

The race to fill orbit with satellites is colliding with a harder reality: too few proven rockets are available to launch them.

By The Beiruter