. The company hopes to fill what it says is an 85 percent gap in mobile connectivity across the planet, and envisions applications for multiple public and private markets including road, rail, air and sea transportation, with the potential of"impacting on the efficiency of hundreds of industries."
By connecting the IoT to a cohesive network between ground and orbital cellular relays, Sateliot hopes to expand on the possibilities of connected devices."Users can seamlessly switch from a terrestrial to a non-terrestrial 5G network, with no need to purchase any extra hardware, such as antennas or modems. Also, they can keep using their current sim cards and mobile operators, thanks to the standard roaming agreements carried out by Sateliot.
Sateliot_0 is the company's first of these satellites, but as the constellation expands, each spacecraft will orbit the Earth every 90 minutes, providing coverage areas three times the size of Texas. RELATED STORIES: