good grief. this is the w. news live from berlin india's stead wave has been described as a beyond heartbreaking hospitals are overwhelmed with surging corona virus infections western nations are sending medical aid also coming up to. the lawyers for a black man killed by police in the u.s. state of north carolina saying camera footage shows he was shot in the back of the head or his hand on the steering wheel.

and we had a moment welcome to the program india has reported another record high number of new car in a virus infections more than 350000 in 2 in the last 24 hours the u.s. the u.k. and the european union are sending medical supplies including oxygen which hospitals treat need to treat cope and 1000 patients clinics are now at full capacity and are now also turning people away. but there was great. crowds waiting for a shot of hope as the coronavirus devastates india people key to outside a vaccination center in mumbai even though the country is a major coronavirus vaccine maker many fear there is not enough to go around. in many parts of the country ill people are queuing outside hospitals they

desperately need treatment. in delhi animesh kumar is looking after a family member they've been turned away from 2 hospitals already. all 3 an oxygen in the ambulance is running out his condition a serious west standing here in the middle of the road without oxygen or hope. hospitals too are running out of oxygen they are already caring for so many patients with covert 19 that wards a full few deliveries that do arrive are simply not enough to save the patients with covert 19. i brought him to the hospital and we waited for hours to get him admitted they didn't let me go in with him i was trying to contact him all day yesterday he had a mobile phone but didn't answer my calls today the hospital called me to tell me he had died. the government is rushing to open new covert 19 wards like this one

a brand new center in delhi they say even more beds will be available soon. where working on increasing the number of oxygen beds on a large scale. within the next few days we will increase the capacity to 2000 to 5000 beds. we are also preparing $200.00 beds at the intensive care unit will there be. some. but new hospital wards come too late for many victims of covert 19. at last cremation sites like this one outside the capital delhi. the pandemics grizzly toll is clear. where the spraying money given a professor of history specializing in modern india at the city university of new

york india appeared sir to be controlling this pandemic quite well initially but now it's a hospital's overwhelmed what do you think went wrong. good evening thanks for having me. well i think several things 1st and foremost i think that the government essentially declared victory too soon after the 1st wave 2nd they didn't adequately prepare for a 2nd wave and 3rd they took a go it alone approach rather than working in an all parties fashion on a war footing they you know sort of decided that they would try to try to. do policy on the fly unfortunately and it's has had disastrous consequences for the country and we know that this is basically a race against what many virus variance right now and do you think it's in the interest of western nations to help india quite quickly yes absolutely obviously because the longer it the longer india suffers the more and the more the virus

transmits in the country the more room there is for additional variance to take root to grow and then to threaten the west as well so cold it is an international and global problem and what affects one part of the world is ultimately going to affect every other part so we have to quickly control contain and douse the fire in india so that it doesn't spread everywhere else and bring the whole world down and how far are the social inequalities impacting the situation here. ok so this is a question with 2 different angles on the one hand rich and poor alike are suffering from cope it so. some india's most famous movie star i mean the button most famous cricketer such an on the look are both have come down with coded and famous politicians and journalists themselves or their families have come down with coded and some are suffering death as well. so in that sense it effects both

rich and poor on the other hand. those who have the means are fleeing the country on private jets and if they are able to they purchase private canisters of oxygen to treat themselves or family members so obviously the weight of this is borne especially high by the poor and in addition to that broadly speaking . the poor have the least access to health care and they are also subjected to what we might call coded policing so when there are fines for not properly masking or following protocols or they're in the wrong place or they're setting up a food stand and they shouldn't be they they bear the penalties for all of this in the starkest possible terms so obviously as with many things. the

weight is borne on evenly and heaviest by the poor head that someone above i've been speaking to us from the city university of new york thank you so much for your time analysts thank you. and tons angela merkel has confirmed that jenny is sending medical aid to india as part of an international effort to bring the covered 1000 crisis and the control event and then and then i will work with other countries to ensure that we can help india and then we are working hard on finding ways to get oxygen production facilities there the whole of europe is working on that and i also discussed this with the prime minister of portugal today that currently holding the e.u. presidency we want to do everything we can to help india. well a 2nd look at other stories making headlines around the world germany will relax its vaccine priority list in june chancellor angela merkel made the announcement after a meeting with state premiers this means that people outside risk categories can

now be in fact be vaccinated. and u.s. vice president has announced a $310000000.00 aid package to central america after a virtual meeting with the president of guatemala the country's foreign minister said the 2 nations would create a joint task force to control migration and help reunite unaccompanied children with their parents. the u.s. has launched a spy satellite into space from california it took off on monday from brandenburg air force base on a delta 4 heavy hit the national reconnaissance office will use the classified payload for intelligence gathering. storm and relatives of andrew brown a black man who was shot by u.s. police in north carolina last week were shown video footage of the incident on monday lawyers of the family held

a press conference they said what they've seen was brown being shot while he was sitting in his car and had his hands on the steering wheel posing no threat to the offices they also said there were only allowed to view 20 seconds of this video from one camera even though longer footage from multiple cameras exists. it is not serious when you've got multiple also is. a man with his own issue we're trying to get away. we will have just. we will have just as well stefan simons is following developments for us in washington d.c. this is all a hot tub mess and it's not looking too good actually those lawyers want a little further they said that they watched an execution and execution of a black man on armed with his hands on the wheel trying to get away being shot in

his beck no gun 7 officers or deputies i should say on the scene. that was quite a scene today all the networks here in the national networks took this press conference life of course and i have. i can't remember having seen lawyers of a family of this family and those are big names those lawyers his civil rights lawyer and columns is that is so angry they were out there were angry about what they what the authorities made available to the family and how they were actually treated while they were watching this what they call only was a snippet of video as you mentioned there were 7 officers on the scene everybody were body camera there's plenty of material and authorities are not. showing it. to fund simon's reporting there from washington d.c. now brazil is among the countries hardest hit by the pandemic with nearly 400000

deaths many hospitals are breaking point and disagreements between political leaders have handed the response rather than coordinated but it's not the same everywhere the city of money come is a tariff success helping its residents with financial benefits more jobs and getting its own vaccines. no one seems to be very concerned about the pandemic on brazil's atlantic coast in monterey ca a city with a population of about 160000 hardly anyone is complaining about the economic situation not even here in this poor district in. laos live there is raising her 2 granddaughters here the 65 year old is able to do that thanks to the local digital currency known as. her welfare benefits are paid out in it. having our benefits paid out in the currency is fantastic it's been happening for

a long time and due to the pandemic the welfare benefits have been increased by 50 euros per person which really helps. with that lay a can afford to buy fruit vegetables and rice you can't use men who cook for alcohol or cigarettes that's one of the limits of this currency which is used like a credit card. fees will be a big deal right now it's difficult to find a job i'm responsible for my grandchildren and i really thank the mayor for increasing the benefit in mumbai during this pandemic and i love. you the will for. all of this came about thanks to the mumble cutbank its local currency is designed to help the poor strengthen the economy and prevent public money from being drained. those who register for it don't just get to use a currency they can also ask for a loan interest free. the city of money seems to be weathering the

pandemic quite well in other areas too a new hospital opened here just as of the pandemic began and because it has 116 beds available for coronavirus patients in intensive care the city of america has offered to help neighboring communities. squaddie empty seats almost half of our patients have been brought here from other community. it was our hospital strategically able to provide for the entire region then they know his you know. but how does the city finance old is the answer lies nearby below the sea the brazilian government is pumping oil from huge reserves off america's coast as compensation the city receives 150000000 euros a year. it's a nice bonus for the city's coffers because local authorities reinvest that money directly into the quality of life of the city's residents and that we're doing well i love my. the mayor is wonderful. the mayor of money

because a left leaning and was recently reelected with 90 percent of the vote that's because he's implementing social welfare policies like in cuba. in contrast to the rest of brazil because developed unusually well. even during the pandemic we were able to increase the number of paid jobs thanks to the many emergency programs we've created. with program. because residents are looking into the future up to mystically despite the pandemic. now anyone looking into the sky in berlin overnight was able to glimpse a so-called pink super moon shining above the german capital named after a pink color flower that blooms in spring time the moon occurs when the planet is at its closest angle towards us in its orbit here it is illuminating some of the

city's famous landmarks like the brandenburg gate. well that's it you are up to date up next is dr phil taking a look at high speed internet from outer space you can also find much more news and analysis on our website that is dot com take care like. when you hear me now i guess we can hear you in the finals 2 years gentlemen starts now we'll bring you an angle a man called you've never time to have surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moves and want to. we talked to people who follow along the way maurice and critics like join us for michael's last stop.

germany is a leading industrial nation that still has many areas that desperately lag behind on the telecoms front and that applies to both landlines and internet access though broadband speed rankings constantly fluctuates germany ranks in the mid thirty's compared to other countries. and while other countries pick up the pace germany is struggling to keep up. my one solution be an extraterrestrial one providing high speed internet for everyone . the earth's orbit will soon be home to new constellations of satellites in the thousands could they make the vision of fast connectivity everywhere on earth

a reality. which regions in germany have the worst internet connection and how is performance measured. the engineering consultancy group p 3 specializes in gauging the signal strength of networks for mobile phone and internet providers its fleet of several dozen cars ferries it specialists all across europe to detect any gaps in coverage. technicians measured the surfing speed of various websites including the up and down load of data and video streaming aborted transfers and sluggish intermittent connectivity indicate deficits in network quality of the

telephones and i'm computer for the phones or being connected to a computer where a sound file is being played but. i'm not just a tennis teller for the 1st 4 calls the 2nd one vendors are called and once that calls over there's a brief pause and then the 2nd phone calls the 1st one. and that's repeated all day long so as to objectively determine voice quality images we have to cut. the team also use b. test websites to check d.s.l. and landline connections on millions of computers worldwide. that enables all left to must pay a fee and their fellow engineers in $100.00 to give providers an overview with global networks the information reveals how well or poorly competitive is up a full many. of us it's his am and this is data gathered from losers around the world. developed a piece of software that is integrated in around 900 apps is

a software is into gear and these apps are installed on around 200000000 devices well why on and go and study up for not going to users agree to be involved in network quality assessment this out will register the actual user experience. and leave most. wherever the user is using their device to download material all viewed videos we can see in the background how the network coverage was something very good for us a good one whether it was 3 g. or 4 g.'s which country which provider and a lot of other information we get our information not via the users but via the networks minutes. the biggest bottlenecks in coverage within gemini are in the east of the country but some of the west internet connection is down in the southwest in the area around the town of bad 2nd and.

you're going to be says teamed up with other local residents calling for a free internet and the local authorities are also helping to set up wife i hope spots across the area the only alternative is to use mobile phone providers across the border in switzerland albeit at a price. the stripes and it's a shocking coverage from switzerland is great here is that i have a weak signal for a german network and strong signals for 2 swiss want to expand in kind of a kind of being unable to access data was on the road is a major problem for companies from and services lies the tempest in which i was from i can't do after sales or carry out charges or orders i can't get my clients any information soon to get to students. and the emergency services can't get the data and information they need to help people who had an accident. vines it's become. some areas here are so remote that network providers are reluctant to invest in installing broadband cables and that includes places along some of

germany's highways and non-urban roads and i got excited. so you can't use the time on the road for a couple of phone conversations because the call will cut out every 2 or 3 minutes so you have to reconnect it it's not worth it for the best kind telephone not the are loaded one for the ham kind of people who have an accident out here might get lucky and pick up a couple of radio waves otherwise they have to walk to the next inhabited building and ask for assistance but it's basically like a mere 991 but those beautiful landscapes can also cause major headaches when it comes to expanding network coverage is probably most of the problem is the demography high but not 2nd in the final value surrounded by the black forest hills features that are unfavorable for network. and it's practically impossible to provide that density of coverage with conventional technology fast. commence in a location and here too there are companies that are completely dependent on fast broadband connections to the rest of the world. software specializes in the

digitalisation of the global working world providing solutions. and interactive management. birds that heenan is home to both the companies are indeed department and its global sales division the company would have had to close its premises in the town had it not been for some smart solutions devised by its own developers. conference is here every day online presentations from remote system configurations and online training sessions and that requires a fast internet connection our founder and director. is based in the austin in the us so we also need a good connection to that office we have this hunger for data and it's growing every day. down in the basement the software engineers managed to solve their internet problem by combining a range of different elements. of linked up

a number of internet connections a d.s.l. line or cable connection and are planning to throw a 3rd anchor across 1st responder. basically there's an excellent l.t.e. network just a few 100 metres away from here and we're linking up lines to create a very fast internet connection and internet for the. technical obstacles alone mean that makeshift solutions like this and not an option for private individuals and that's a gap that you're going beats wants to fill he and his fellow free internet activists have installed free wife eye in most public buildings in bad 2nd and. last that's a critical reception. they cost more before going people but it's a big network providers or most of them offer customers a voice over ip option was the fatah the advantage there is that people can then make phone calls via y. 5000 for the hospital with the right contract you can now phone people for free in

about talks when it's on. bad 2nd already has dozens of free internet terminals enabling local people to surf and make phone calls we're going to set his sights even higher however on fiber in the sky a fast internet connection via satellite. fiber in the sky is a fundamental starting fiber in a star is definitely an option that avoids the need to take up roads everywhere which is what prevents network expansion of cars and carol me of art providing the right band with your view of iraq to cables and laying 3 or 4 or 5 kilometers of cables that's extremely expensive in a hilly area with hard ground fiber in the sky comes from above the sky come from everyone has their own direct receiver and high speed internet about a. coup in french guiana is the launch pad to air bus and arianespace satellites they orbit the earth at an altitude of 36000 kilometers and

always about the same point they serve primarily to transfer t.v. and radio broadcasts. the geostationary communications satellites are assembled into lose from. they way up to 6 times and have an operating life of 25 years each satellite is highly complex and custom built and can cost up to $250000000.00 euros. and that's why current satellite based internet connections are so expensive demand for this option however is continually on the rise. of the rinker panama has been part of a revolution in satellite design in recent years from individual components to mass production. in fact today from the design to the delivery to the

customer we can provide such advice and there's that 2 years 1st is quite short. and innovation in power technology systems heralded a new era in satellite construction. for satellites or elbows developed. but mission so for us. a big game you know in terms of mass at lunch any turlough hosts. to have more equipment was on board and to have an it is an interesting no cost at launch as well. geostationary satellites orbit the earth at a distance of 36000 kilometers. even at light speed a signal down below needs 500 milliseconds to reach a satellite that's half a 2nd and. that delay or latency

during phone calls means that the people talking constantly interrupted each other . in order to ensure a smooth online gaming experience that time has to be under $100.00 milliseconds while a delay of just 20 milliseconds will cause orchestral musicians to fall out of sync with each other. with effective internet reception not possible with current geostationary orbit the satellites need to be broke closer to what is called low earth orbit companies planning to install satellite constellations include one web google space x. and amazons blueridge in. the closer a satellite is to earth the smaller the terrestrial surface it can reach which is why it would take hundreds if not thousands of smaller satellites to cover the entire planet and that's a problem alone in terms of sheer production capacity. the

consortium led by one web also includes virgin galactic air bus defense and space and tech giant softbank together they've pulled close to 3 and a half $1000000000.00 to make the dream of global internet access a reality. this provided. to enable the mass production of satellites. 30 was a big challenge in fact as you know we are really. experimental. let's say a. big satellite projection but for mass production it was a challenge to provide a satellite. a few days compared to here where we have and i hear interviews integration takes around 9 months and. 3 days which was a really crazy fall for that market and so today would you got to let. him know

what the way. i see it is the passage he is currently at one satellite day one where plans to launch its global service in 2021 with 650 satellites orbiting at an altitude of 1200 kilometers the next step involves the constellation being expanded to more than 2000 units which has in turn required the development of completely new production methods. up there also as a test engineer he oversees a production setup that manages but the minimum of human impacts the newly designed propulsion systems are also built here in scaled down versions of the fuel tanks filled with zen on gas provided by an unexpected source. here is how the spacecraft is going to move from one point of space to 000 workers are going to put

the special ops to certain altitude but then the satellites need to reach much higher odds that you and the way we're going to do that is by use a stressed or so it's. just for firefighters because it's designed by a company that didn't really know how to the space so it's much cheaper than more traditional terms. once superstars don't move over simply again and we really want to avoid human errors so the way we're going to do that we're going to take a picture with cameras here and the pictures of him doing so will be compared to reference picture and brings them to do differences will be able to save save ourselves on a good job. with human error essentially ruled out high volume production is possible with short turnaround times. when you're doing life of a kind it's easier to get cheaper work on price. terms of testing we are doing less

testing so we need fewer people so we cheaper and saw from our order of magnitude is maybe like a bit more than $100.00 but if you want to buy the stock large it will be a roughly a 1000000 and if you want to go just about it will be way more than. one web and also google space x. and amazon plan to offer their internet service is everywhere on earth in the process of getting 4000000000 people on line. london based one web has no official license from the country's airspace or serenity and sees itself on a mission to bridge the digital divide. the company's current and potential future clientele includes banks and lines shipping companies industry disaster relief agencies and the military.

and consumers will initially be able to book the service fire local telecom providers and as already seen in the mobile phone sector the price will be lower in africa than in germany for example. mike lynsay previously worked in systems engineering for nasa and as part of the design team for the one web satellite constellation the company was the 1st among the competing consorts here to receive approval from the international telecommunications union a united nations agency. and that license is absolutely mandatory for providing the service the one word system uses radio frequency spectrum in order to send information. to customers to provide this broadband internet connectivity you need spectrum that's a span of radio wave flags in order to transmit

information at high to raise the. spectrum that you have the more data that you can provide and because you are used to these these broadband speeds of being able to stream video and send information very quickly back and forth we need a lot of spectrum in order to provide that service to so many people. designing a constellation of satellites in constant contact with each other and the earth is a complex undertaking. it involves a number of technical process is to function at the same time processes that have no precedent. the brain of the constellation the ground network operations center is in london it's headed by alan here at. home where my responsible for looking after day the ground network so we're going to call functions 1st of all we provide situational awareness so we look for

anomalies in the ground network where they occur we work to resolve them scripts. and secondly we do what we call a resource part and resource plan is really the crane's of how the system works which brings together the ground network in turn has a spacecraft and the payout natural usually you change the ground stations run automatically and the fitted with 30 antennae each maintaining contact with 30 satellites. there are currently just 2 fully functional stations one in spits bag norway and the other on sicily to complete global coverage distributed across the planet you would needs just 45 ground stations interconnected. very quickly as you say we're going to be scaling up. q to next year we're going to be out in 3 grass stations every month since

a huge ramp october. doing today today is all about testing and integration next year is all going to be about thinking you know cross stations and. ground stations always seek the best possible connection to the satellite that is closest to the user and can provide the best possible bandwidth. the relevant signal shifts from one satellite to another with the user remaining peacefully unaware. the one web consortium is currently ahead of rivals google space x. and amazon and by the end of 2021 it hopes to have a constellation numbering $650.00 satellites going to either way the earth's orbit is set to get a lot of traffic in the near future how will the engineers ensure that there are no collisions so something we're doing at one where is is actually enhancing our safety by separating each plane in the consolations so there are multiple planes of

multiple satellites each and if they're all at the same altitude you have the sort of crossing point more salaries are zipping past each other a very high velocities so what we do is we separate those crossing points so the salaries are actually not zipping past one another when that means as we're actually in some regards we only have to manage a single plane at a time and you can apply that same principle to other cost solutions so we are maintaining. many kilometers of separation between space x. space x. is separate from. the amazon constellation and that's a very important safety detail to make sure that operators are not trying to launch an operate hundreds of thousands of satellites within the same amount of space. certainly constellations not the only inhabitants of. those serious traffic in

immediate now into space in addition to count the. disused satellites there is spent rocket elements fragments of exploded spacecraft and other space debris circling the planet the result is a growing orbital scrapyards now comprising 20000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more they're joined 570-0000 smaller objects at least one centimeter in size and the speed at which they move makes them extremely dangerous. so if there is a question space it can be catastrophic objects in earth's orbit are typically traveling around 25000 kilometers per hour and even a small object say 10 centimeters can carry enough energy to fragment a large satellite into thousands of pieces and so if such an event occurs now you go from one cell in one piece of debris to thousands of pieces of debris

and uses those pieces of debris might carry enough energy to again fragment a different satellite and so you know there's a sphere of a sort of chain reaction where one collision creates debris that debris strikes another satellite creating even more debris. there is still no rules on the behavior of satellite constellations whether traffic related or on safety or aesthetics the only stipulation is a ban on stationing weapons in earth's orbit and that the satellites have to be safely off to 25 years. one webb has decided to let its satellites expire in the atmosphere after an operational life of just 5 years. the major nations are working on sophisticated nira radia systems to prevent

collisions gemini's air space center. the d.l.r. is using a missile defense system from the german military in conjunction with the famous found hole for a desert shaft research group. radar facility outside bone in western germany is the only one in europe that could track and depict of jets in orbit up to 2 centimeters in diameter manuel met since his colleagues have been conducting precise measurements on space debris in order to prevent the need for a vase of action by active satellites. and if you have an object that you are especially interested in because it is threatening to combine it with your own satellite system then you can use the system to real measure its orbit and obtain more precise data as you must be sick

a better track gives you a better risk assessment of whether a collision is actually imminent or whether such a collision can be ruled out. there are several collisions every day if they sit maneuvers there are only needed 2 or 3 times a year. but the scientists models project a collision in orbit triggered by space debris every 5 to 10 years just how crucial this surveillance is became clear in early september 29th team when a satellite in the space x. starling constellation was approaching a weather satellites belonging to the europeans space agency. yes a tried and failed to persuade space x. to take evasive action but with no response from the american company the agency had to force its 400000000 euro weather satellite into a collision avoidance maneuver where the space x.

was unwilling to take action or in k. . due to a lack of control over the satellites remains unclear so longer value the systems work really well and have a very high level of reliability operating the satellite constellations there's no problem and if we get into an area right in the range of 10 to 20 percent things start to get really critical then these constellations can become a problem within themselves and between each other and that can lead to a cascade effect where more and more space debris is created. back radar facility near bowen is among the leading lights in space surveillance. radar has a limited range of sight it has to be told approximately where an object is in the sky in order to conduct precise measurements. the teaser facility is immense compared to the german experimental space of a lens and tracking radar guessed

a new elektra nikky controlled radar system that observes the near earth zone of space within milliseconds they stand semiconductor technology the radar will be the 1st in germany to track active satellites and space debris 247 also creating an orbit state to catalog that helps to prevent collisions. clown is in charge of gemini space situational awareness and which will work together with guest on data collection he's seriously concerned about the satellite constellations currently being assembled. just. dusty one of the could be the problem of the electric drive systems and the one website alerts do not allow hard delta vees or speed increases. the. plan is to deploy the flutes in an orbit of around 500 kilometers and then slowly

boost them to 1200 kilometers through the most. emanated belt and then bring them back down at the end of their lifetime. when. it's a problem similar to sending a family of snails across a major road during rush hour. we're going through knowing. there's a major risk of collision not least because the electric propulsion systems do not give the satellites much scope for a vase of action. mr also. the data from the t.v. system and from get a collated at germany's a situational awareness center near the dutch border. the german armed forces and the german air a space center worked together at the nato communications and information agency unit their radar systems can only track the near earth zone and knots geostationary

orbit so the center also uses telescopes to surveil satellites that are high iraq and there are already concerns on the ground over the 1st satellites launched by space x.'s starlink constellation. was. from the launch of the fast 60 strong link subtle mind. is relatively high. and back can lead to interference to observations in near. normal. the problem feared by astronomers growing population of tens of thousands or many satellites in the low and medium. will reflect on. and in those areas of observation telescope coverage will be compromised. not surprisingly some of the traffic in the low earth orbit is from military

sources the relatively close range of 502800 kilometer is a convenient one figure the ring meteorological and geological data and the spying nowhere else in gemini did the armed forces and the civilian german heiress they sent to work so closely together could represent a we can see the one when constellation with 6 satellites launched today all on one orbit. this is the stunning constellation with 10 times the number of satellites spread across different orbital planes. and this constellation is likewise set to grow significantly in the future. they are totally sure. anymore if you were told of a large number of electrically powered satellites being introduced into critical orbit hearts will definitely post questions. in the final phase of these satellites deployment this will also present a bigger challenges for global surveillance systems than is the case with the

current population and all that. so we have to prepare accordingly and continue to expand our capabilities of a cloud what else for. the importance of protecting critical infrastructure such as whether g.p.s. and observation satellites was highlighted in march 29th the indian military shot down one of the country's weather satellites in order to demonstrate its strategic space capabilities the satellite broke up into 6 and a half 1000 pieces of debris which then spread around the globe but a speed of 35000 kilometers per hour. the interesting thing or syria is not so much the massive deborah that stay on the rich. you know all that is the pounds moved by kinetic energy. of course pose

a threat. since you can. china has also demonstrated its ability to destroy critical infrastructure in low earth orbit. done time in south korea is just a 2 hour car drive from the border to north korea everyone here is aware of the threat from the north's missile system and it's here that one web is working with intel and south korean specialists in maritime satellite communications entirely and is making the satellite antennae for the ground stations and use the terminals that can pick up and relay the signals from the satellite constellation at any point on a us. or. the koreans the chosen due to their experience in maritime communications where the transmitter and receiver of signals

a both moving the idea is to adapt that technology for internet access in self driving cars permanent connectivity will become increasingly important. steve chan and kevin other visionary minds behind intelli an american cio is still challenging but we have all the solution now so cio is fixed so far i think the best soul is more so than me as i can or should. also maintain a tractor trailer. we are developing using now but leave your base or visually. is moving so that means all we have to. go by ship or by satellite. means but i'm also the accuracy so even though the worst case is poor we have to bury. accurate track the video and we can maintain

the connection so there could be our challenger for your future so we'll try to overhaul. rotating parabolic antennae at the cutting edge of current technology but a few years from now there might well be a new antennae available based on semiconductor technology this is a company. with a. business of your future intel but this one is normally chemical body is right that we can put here where there is a some electronic circuit inside electronic circuit to real game. itself so it's kind of a mechanical. motion and very accurate and also very small have about. whether by sea the idea is to ensure easy connectivity for people using all means of transportation in addition to those who are stationary. this

facility near seoul tests radio communications with objects in the. a group of engineers headed by physicists now feigns spent several months focusing on one specific task proving beyond doubt that an internet connection can be established on 90 days in a row via satellite constellation their test results would determine whether one website writes to transmitted the frequency spectrum approved by the international telecommunications union would be confirmed it's a milestone the team eventually reached in 2019 satellites were launched in february of this year and we want to show proof of concept that it works so we want to be able to send signals up to the satellite but down again and prove that we can send traffic at very high speed. and therefore realize some of these services you

know high speed broadband services that we want to offer the world so this is a perfect testing ground we've got regulatory clearance here to do transmissions and receptions. could a system initially comprising just 6 satellites in orbit stream internet video content from germany now danes and his team were also eager to see how the experiment pans out. what we'll be doing is where we're going to present the earth channel rise up and getting content from there over to our modems to the terminals themselves to the satellites back down again i know all the acknowledgments coming back to across the internet so we can keep on stream just here we just got 3 more minutes and then the satellites will be coming out over its satellite flies it takes about 3 minutes and then the next next.

1010 seconds. there. we're now live streaming video from these are the you have to. travel. there were briefly of the quality of the signal wasn't good enough so it lost lost connection but. we try and we're still in testing we're testing the circuit so optimizing the system to get better and better performance better looking suit you know improve quality of the satellite ok well thanks everybody for joe thank. you that providing sufficient bandwidth for streaming videos in full h.d. will require the launch and deployment of far more satellites and more ground stations. over in the

united states one webb has a 2nd ground station not far from washington d.c. . the constellation satellites can be controlled from here and from headquarters in london. daria careen is responsible for coordinating the constellations flight maneuvers she and colleague ny richey control individual satellites. here the 2 experts are conducting extensive tests connected to automatic control retain. it's a system that i want to trust but at the same time as a human i want to make sure i'm checking all of all of my checks and balances making sure that everything is ok with the tally before we bring to the next step because again this isn't a simulation we have to take our time and we have to be as humanly perfect as

possible how many controllers will be required to pilot a mega constellation of several 100 satellites this is well artificial intelligence will come in to assist the human operators i believe we're going to be having one controller for about 20. 30 so it's maybe even more we're trying to automate our system so that one person can handle as many satellites that is needed within our crews because i mean like you said for not going to have a one to one ratio and we need to learn to automate our system so that when we see issues on board if our problems can't do it manually then automatically our system should be able to handle it it's kind of a walk before you run type of i guess philosophy so instead of having so many satellites up at 1st we deployed you know 6 and then we could spend a significant amount of time kind of getting to know mike and like a new friend basically just deciding you know this satellite is capable of this and

it's not capable of this and i kind of adapt to the constellation as it grows to because of our ability to understand the vehicles for months we've you know since launch for 6 months now and we have got a good idea of the types of tools that will need in order to use you know sustain a mega constellation and in addition to the technical challenges there are also no end of regulation to reopen stickles to overcome it's all right. all right. this is ruth kelly into a team of trying to convince more than 200 different countries and territories to grant one web commission to provide services. every person in the world wants access to information and entertainment and they may define that differently and their country may be concerned about what access they have but even a country like north korea wants their people to have access to certain kinds of

information right and so every country in the world wants their people connected they may want to control the way they're connected and they have concerns about data protection or security but they want their people connected and so even north korea even cuba. even india china russia they're all interested in conic to conic to that is the key to the future. internet access in north korea china and russia is regulated differently than in germany what surprised the company was how more democratic nations also tend to demand an emergency off switch before giving approval to internet access via satellite constellation you know what even the united states ask for an off switch. every country wants a little control over the traffic and it's country and one of the things they say basically is if you cause interference usually you'll need to be turned off and you say of course the ideas i'm never going to cause interference when going back to

the coordination with the other satellite systems i don't want to have to turn off so i'm going to make darn sure that i'm not interfering at anything. one web and it's rival google space x. a comically neck and neck in this new space race with amazon lagging some distance behind with the high speed internet from low earth orbit will actually be commercially available by the end of 2021 is still hard to say. south korea has the fastest mobile internet on the planet and practically everyone here has high speed connectivity via to rest real all know bile networks. and it is here that now things in his colleagues are working towards a future where every person on earth could have fast internet via satellite provided that governments allow it.

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