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Tech startup connects to two satellites in orbit from Earth via Bluetooth


That's a distance of 600km

Tech startup Hubble Network, which has secured a $20 million Series A funding round from the likes of Transpose Platform and Y Combinator, has managed to stretch that even further, making a Bluetooth connection from Earth to space. This development is significant because traditional networks often lag in delivering effective coverage in remote areas, consume too much power, and are prohibitively costly to operate at a global scale. Hubble’s approach directly tackles these problems by enabling standard Bluetooth devices to connect to their satellite network without cellular reception simply with a software update.

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