Archive · 1 Oct 2025
Spacecoin Sends Data Via Satellite in Bid to Rival Starlink
Imagine sending messages or money through space without using the regular internet!
That's what Spacecoin is trying to do.
They've sent data from one place on Earth, up to a satellite in space, and back down to another place.
This is like a new type of internet, where anyone can join and use it.
The company hopes to offer internet in places where it is hard to get or too expensive.
Unlike other services, this new internet will be built so that no single company controls the network.
It's also designed so that your information is extra safe, like using a secret code that can't be easily broken.
Spacecoin successfully sent secured information through space using a satellite.
The company aims to offer an alternative to Starlink's satellite internet.
Spacecoin plans to build a decentralized system that anyone can join.
The test involved data on a blockchain traveling between Chile and the Azores.
The firm has one satellite and plans to launch three more by the end of the year.
- Who
- Spacecoin, a US startup
- What
- Successfully sent secured information through space using a satellite.
- When
- The test was conducted on Wednesday.
- Where
- The data traveled from Chile to the Azores via satellite.
- Why
- To provide a decentralized satellite internet service alternative to Starlink.
- Company
- Spacecoin
- Service
- Satellite Internet
- Test Date
- Wednesday
- Distance Traveled
- 7,000 km
- Satellite Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Satellite Count
- One operational; three planned by year-end