{"id":60139,"date":"2020-03-18T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/startup-lynk-claims-first-ever-leo-to-cell-message\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:17:09","slug":"startup-lynk-claims-first-ever-leo-to-cell-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/startup-lynk-claims-first-ever-leo-to-cell-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Lynk Claims First-Ever LEO to Cell Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynk Global<\/strong> said that it has reached the first-ever milestone of successfully connecting a satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to a mobile phone on Earth, and has sent a text message from space to a mobile phone. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company said it conducted the test on Feb. 24 and has successfully repeated it multiple times, including with independent observers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company is working toward using satellites to provide broadband service directly to more than 5 billion mobile phones all over the world. Lynk said the test used the firm\u2019s patented \u201ccell tower in space\u201d technology \u2014 LEO nanosatellites that connect directly to unmodified mobile phones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a video shared online of the test, when the message comes through on the cell phone, two men are heard celebrating, yelling, \u201cYes man, yes!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we got what we needed,\u201d one man said. \u201cF\u2014 yeah dude. Oh my God!\u201d the other replied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Lynk Co-founder and CEO Charles Miller, a former NASA senior advisor for commercial space, said Lynk is working to deploy its first commercial product. \u201cWith the permission of regulators, we are confident that we can bring a world-first solution to the market to tens-of-millions of people by the end of 2020,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynk is backed by <strong>Revolution<\/strong> investment firm\u2019s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and <strong>Blazar Ventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL and Chairman and CEO of Revolution&nbsp;said, \u201cConnectivity changes lives and saves lives. Lynk\u2019s successful test brings the company one step closer to providing the 2+ billion people around the world who live and work in rural communities with affordable connectivity and the immeasurable social and economic benefits that come with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynk Global said that it has reached the first-ever milestone of successfully connecting a satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to a mobile phone on Earth, and has sent a text message from space to a mobile phone. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company said it conducted the test on Feb. 24 and has successfully repeated it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}