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It was an interesting week for ideas about the future of the Internet. On Wednesday, satellite industry notable Greg Wyler announced that his company OneWeb, which wants to build a micro-satellite network to bring Internet to all corners of the globe, secured investments from Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Qualcomm. Then in a separate announcement on Friday, Elon Musk said that he would also be devoting his new Seattle office to creating "advanced micro-satellites" to deliver Internet.
OneWeb, formerly WorldVu Satellites Ltd, aims to target rural markets, emerging markets, and in-flight Internet services on airlines, the Wall Street Journal reported. Both Branson and Qualcomm Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs will sit on the company's board, but Wyler did not say how much Virgin and Qualcomm invested in his company.
Wyler said that his company's goal is to create a network of 648 small satellites that would weigh in at around 285 pounds each. The satellites would be put in orbit 750 miles above the Earth and ideally cost about $350,000 each to build using an assembly line approach. Wyler also said that Virgin, which has its own space segment, would be launching the satellites into orbit. “As an airline and mobile operator, Virgin might also be a candidate to resell OneWeb’s service,” the Journal noted. Wyler has said that he projects it to take $1.5 billion to $2 billion to launch the service, and he plans to launch in 2018.
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Here’s a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has
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Last week, Graphenea attended Nanotech Tokyo 2015, a leading international nanotechnology exhibition and conference. CEO Jesus de la Fuente and Business Development Director Iñigo Charola presented the firm’s graphene materials catalog and joint development capabilities.
“We have a strong presence in the Japanese market and are developing custom graphene materials for large Japanese multinationals”, says de la Fuente. “The exhibit was an excellent opportunity to talk to our partners and seek out new ones”.
Photo: Iñigo Charola (left) and Jesus de la Fuente (right) with our Japanese distributor, Yasuhiro Ichiara of the New Metals & Chemicals Corporation (center).
With over 50,000 delegates at 15 co-located events, Nanotech Tokyo claims to be the world’s largest nanotechnology conference. This 14th edition provided state of the art information from R&D to applications and vast opportunities for networking. Co-located events included 3D Printing, Printable Electronics, Smart Energy, and Functional Materials 2015, among others. Material makers, equipment manufacturers, universities, research associations, and political representatives gave presentations to form a unique blend of research, technology, and financial nanotechnology landscape.
This year the conference organizers launched a novel Business Matching System, an online match-making network to assist the finding of potential business partners and setting up meetings prior to the event.
Information is already available and registration is open for Nanotech Tokyo 2016.
Photo: Nanotech Tokyo 2015.
