"The future seems to be an Internet world so why we go slow".The first country which implemented this concept is Japan. Japan's space agency launched an experimental communications satellite Saturday designed to enable super high-speed data transmission at home and in Southeast Asia. The name of the satellite is "Kizuna," which was launched on 23 Feb 2008.
Specifications of Sattelite
The satellite, equipped with two large multi-beam antennas, separated from the rocket and successfully entered its intended orbit 175 miles from Earth, JAXA said in a statement. It will be moved to its stationary orbit in about 20 days. The agency said with Kizuna it hoped to enable data transmission of up to 1.2 gigabytes per second at a low cost across Japan and in 19 different places in Southeast Asia. JAXA developed Kizuna with another government agency, the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Cost of Satellite
The total cost of the development, launch and operation of the satellite is estimated at 52 billion yen ($480 million), JAXA spokeswoman Asaka Hagiwara said.
Strategy of Japan in taking this step
Japan is racing to catch up with regional rival China, which has put astronauts in space twice since 2003 and was the third country to send a human into orbit after Russia and the United States. Japan has since announced plans to send its first astronauts into space and set up a base on the moon by 2025.
Moreover we can say that this rivalry between Japan and China will bring a great boost in the technological devepmentand in the future we can expect a webpage to be opened in our computer when we will just only think about it.
Faster Internet speed
