A View From The Crow's Nest

  • AVFTCN 042 – How Many Satellites Are Planned for LEO? (Also… Australia travel)

    How many satellites are currently planned for low Earth orbit (LEO)? 10,000? 100,000? 500,000? 1,000,000? 10,000,000? The answer is higher than you might expect in terms of filings with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)… the real question is: how many will actually launch into orbit? I gave a presentation about all of this at the…

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  • AVFTCN 036 – A Hard Drive Failure, a Puppy, Climatebase, a New Role… and an Unplanned Hiatus

    Hi! Remember this newsletter you subscribed to? The one you haven’t seen since back on April 22, 2024? Welllllll… it’s been a wild ride… and an unplanned hiatus. But… my goal now is to get back into this a bit more, and so I want to fire off this short note to just give a…

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  • AVFTCN 031* – Book: “Making A Metaverse That Matters”

    I have always been intrigued by “what comes after the web browser” for how we interact with information online. After all, the web browser has been our primary way of interacting with information since the early 1990s. Even when we are using “apps” on our phones today, in many cases they are effectively web browsers…

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