While billionaires battle to dominate the nascent suborbital tourism industry, the satellite-internet space race is also heating up. Amazon’s Project Kuiper, SpaceX’s Starlink, and Softbank-backed OneWeb now have another challenger in the competition to deliver fast, low-latency internet from space: Immarsat. The UK-based firm plans to launch a network of low-earth-orbit satellites that will provide next-generation 5G services, Bloomberg reports. “It brings multiple network elements together into harmony, into a single unified network,” Immarsat CEO Rajeev Suri told the news outlet. “No other company has anything like it.” The launch of the new satellites isn’t imminent, however. They’re not expected to…
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