May 2024
Hubble Network, a Seattle-based startup recently made history by becoming the first company to establish a Bluetooth connection to a satellite. This technological advancement will potentially open the doors to connect millions more devices anywhere in the world.
According to the Company’s CEO and co-founder, Alex Haro, the technology will have global coverage with 20 times less drainage and 50 times lower operating costs. Moreover, it does not require any hardware modifications on the device, just needs to change the device’s software, simply by integrating it with a piece of firmware to communicate with a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) receiver satellite in orbit.
This technology can be used in markets including logistics, cattle tracking, smart collars for pets, GPS watches for kids, car inventory, construction sites, and soil temperature monitoring.
The company launched its first two satellites to orbit on Space X’s Transporter 10 ride-share mission in March and since then, the company has confirmed it has received signals from the onboard 3.5mm Bluetooth chips from over 600 km away.
The company is aiming to launch a third satellite on SpaceX’s transporter-11 mission this summer and a fourth satellite on transporter-13 and plans to launch 32 satellites all at once in the fourth quarter of 2025 or the beginning of 2026 which will enable connection with a Hubble satellite roughly two-three hours per day from anywhere in the world.
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