Buy This Bankrupt Satellite to Share Internet With the Poor

A schooling bus - sized satellite — the world ’s most capable — is for sale , as its corporate owner goes under . But rather than permit it slowly die , a non - net profit is raising moneyto repurpose it as a free internet provider for the poor .

Buy This Satellitesays it ’ll take $ 150,000 in contributions to get the ball flap towards a successful bidding on the orphaned Terrestar-1 , at which breaker point its orbit will be moved so as to supply a connection to body politic in pauperization — for free . The group also plan to invent and mete out chinchy satellite modem to get masses hooked up on the ground . A lot of fiscal and bureaucratic trudging will have to be reach between Johnny Cash kick upstairs and net unleashed , but it ’s a wondrously daring programme , and a noble one at at that . Countries like Papua New Guinea — which has an exposed orbital “ slot ” which the Terrestar-1 could move into — has internet accession for only 2.1 % of its universe . A charabanc - sized router for the world ’s poor and internet - less could do a whole lot of good . [ bribe This SatelliteviaBoing Boing ]

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