Free space optical communication will allow the same connectivity in space we already have on Earth. And this will provide benefits across a number of sectors.
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Will new communications licensing costs make small satellites so expensive that they can’t be used for student education?
So long as small satellites are in low Earth orbit – and most likely they will be – the Earth’s “vacuum cleaner” will clean them up.
When Vanguard 1 – the “grapefruit satellite” – was launched in 1958, its only companions were Explorer 1 and Sputnik 2. Soon it may have thousands of descendants swarming around it.
