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>>Pablos Holman: So we've been working in an area of science that's kind of new called
meta materials. These are materials don't exist in nature but we can manufacture.
So one of the problems we started attacking is if you have got a satellite dish on the
ground, that's what these domes on boats are, or that dish in a predator drone, it is a
physically steerable dish so that you can aim it at a satellite and talk to it, right?
It's big and heavy and expensive. If there is an LEO satellite whizzing by, you have
a steerable dish in the ground to talk to it.
So what we did is we invented this new type of antenna. It is a flat panel. I will show
you. It looks kind of like that. But it can electronically steer a beam with no moving
parts, right? I actually brought one -- this is like the
commercial product we're working on. So this thing can steer a beam and aim at a satellite
dish. This is a way of getting gigabyte wireless to everyone on the planet. Right now every
satellite we put up is an LEO satellite. It has got more communications capacity than
the entire network did last year. But we can't talk to them without these big, heavy, mechanical
dishes. I can duct tape that to the side of a building.
It will find satellites and track them. That's a way to scale wireless infrastructure beyond
what we can imagine.