NASA Plans 5G network with Nano-Satellite

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A 5G network for telecommunications and networking from space is the objective of a project of the Ames Research Center of NASA and the California technology company machine-to-Machine Intelligence (m2mi). Want to achieve the project partners using a large number of very small satellite, called nano-satellites. They are not as the usual large communications satellite in geostationary orbit, but significantly lower in low Earth orbit (Low Earth Orbit, LEO) position. “Many small satellites as distributed, decentralized system is to have a modern approach,” said Klaus Schilling from the Institute of computer science at the University of Wurzburg to press. As an advantage, reduced launch costs.

The 5G network is IP-based and related services, such as the NASA. These include VoIP, video and data transmission as well as an intelligent system for communicating devices. The implementation is many, only about five to fifty kilogram nano-satellites in a “constellation”. This is in LEO and thus much lower altitudes than the geostationary orbit position. “The constellation is a robust, global, weltraumgestütztes high-speed network for communication, data storage and Earth observation,” is m2mi CEO Geoff Brown convinced. Nano-satellite would be cost-effective mass-production techniques are manufactured. When exactly the system up and running, leave NASA and m2mi but still open.

The interest in the concept of swarms of small satellites in LEO also has financial reasons. “A large geostationary satellite has to almost 36,000 kilometers above the earth brought,” said Schilling. As LEO on the other hand, an area referred to the largely altitudes of under 1,000 kilometres included, as Schilling. The transport of these smaller satellites in LEO, with smaller rockets. It also allows smaller suppliers offs, and make lower costs for the satellite launch in prospect. “There will be some in the commercial field are doing,” says Schilling therefore concluded.