NASA shoots for 200Mbps networks on swarming satellites

Saturday launch will hoist super-manoeuvrable CubeSats that find each other in space

Orbital ATK will on Saturday^* launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a supply mission to the International Space Station, with one of its payloads being a pair of CubeSats that NASA hopes can demonstrate 200 megabits per second downloads, from space, and how small satellites can be operated in harness to build networks or complex machines.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Networks
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