Germany blocks full Chinese takeover of satellite startup
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Germany has blocked a complete Chinese takeover of a satellite startup on national security grounds, sources close to the matter told AFP Thursday, as Berlin takes an increasingly hard line against Beijing.

The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

  • tal@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    It is not as if you can have geostationary LEO satellites.

    considers

    You could have part of a geostationary satellite at LEO altitude. That’s what a space elevator entails.

    That’s obviously not what they’re talking about doing here, though.