SpaceX and OneWeb -- Same Goal, Different Technology and Strategy

lpress writes: OneWeb has announced that Airbus will manufacture their Internet-connectivity satellites and told us more about their plans and progress. Both OneWeb and their competitor SpaceX have the same goal — global Internet connectivity and backhaul using satellite constellations, but their technologies and organizational strategies are different. SpaceX will use many more satellites than OneWeb, but they will be smaller, shorter-lived, cheaper and orbit at a lower altitude. They are also keeping more of the effort in-house. This is competitive capitalism at its best — let's hope both succeed.

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Re:Competition

[ShanghaiBill]

Obviously sub-optimal.

Indeed. The dead weight of competition is exactly why capitalist countries are always lagging behind technological powerhouses like Cuba and Ethiopia.