People Still Don’t Have High-speed Internet and a S.F. Company Builds Satellites to Make that Possible

He said that there are three to four billion people without broadband internet. This problem has only gotten worse with the increase in the world’s population. It’s the biggest problem humanity faces today.

Engineers in lab coats rush about the 150,000-square-foot warehouse at Pier 70

Here, the rail tracks and ceiling cranes that won humanity’s greatest war are still on show. Each row corresponds to one side of a cube-shaped satellite, where engineers build and test circuits and chips that can withstand years of radiation far from Earth’s magnetic field.

The company’s machine shop, located in another building, is bustling with machines the size of large telephone booths. They are whittling away at the lumps of titanium to make the pieces and bits that will enable future satellites to sit silently high above fixed points in space and connect the world.

Arcturus, the company’s first satellite has been in preparation for launch for several months. It’s been waiting for a shared rocket ride to launch with Viasat-3’s Viasat-3 satellite, which has experienced delays that have repeatedly delayed the launch date.

Arcturus, named after the brightest star of the northern hemisphere, is different than other satellites that are trying to solve the same problems.

For one thing, it is smaller than satellites like the Viasat-3, which will be