Paris, March 18, 2025 (AFP) - What to know about the satellite communications race

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2025-03-18

Elon Musk's SpaceX subsidiary Starlink is the most widely-known firm offering satellite communications, but the sector is the scene of hot competition between several groups. Depending on their technology, different players can offer widely varying capacity and applications for connectivity via space. From their orbits around the Earth, satellites serve as "relays between one point on the ground and another", said Jean-Philippe Taisant, deputy di......

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