Like three-quarters of Australians, the small NSW town of Merimbula isn’t on the three-year rollout map for the National . But the town now has its own NBN claim to fame, having been selected by NBN Co as the site of its first satellite gateway.
Not all NBN services will come from a cable; in the more remote parts of Australia you’ll be getting the NBN from the sky. iiNet’s announced pricing for its satellite NBN services, due to launch later this month.
NBN Co has revealed that it’s selected Space Systems/Loral to build two Ka-band satellites at a cost of approximately $620 million which will be launched in 2015 to provide broadband services to remote rural locations.
You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner’s chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled]
Toshiba’s entry into the ultrabook race isn’t quite as visually flashy as the Asus Zenbook or the Macbook Air. But it proves one of those things that your mother told you when you were young — it’s what’s underneath that counts.
Nostradamus? Pah! A mere vague amateur. The late, great Arthur C. Clarke was not only more of a man of science, he was also a man capable of pretty accurately predicting the future. We’ve previously noted his ability to predict GPS in 1956. Just eight years later, he was nailing the concepts of teleworking and the Internet.
A Google Nexus One shot into space by an enterprising group of students survived the cold vacuum of space. Sadly, while it makes an excellent low-cost satellite, it’s not quite as good at surviving return impacts. Video after the jump.
Last Sunday, at 5:58pm, the USAF launched NRO LR-32, a secret US military spy satellite so massive that it required this Delta IV Heavy rocket to reach orbit. In fact, the mysterious spacecraft is the largest satellite in the world.
