NASA Ames Research Centre said Thursday that it has teamed with M2Mi to develop tiny satellites called nanosats that will go into building new low-Earth orbit telecommunications systems for use in the commercial sector. Read more
Nasa is developing satellites weighing as little as 5kg for a future global telecoms network. The so-called 'nanosats' would be used to set up a fifth-generation network hosted in low Earth orbit capable of carrying IP traffic for phones, wireless and video-on-demand services around the world. Read more