Japan launches high-speed internet satellite
Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said. The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre on Tanegashima island off the southern tip of Kyushu Island, southern Japan. The communications satellite, expected to be in use for five years, separated from the rocket approximately 35 minutes after the launch, said an official of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during a live broadcast. The 342 million dollar-Kizuna will allow super-high speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world, the agency said.
That rate would translate to 150 times that of the average high-speed ADSL connection rate of 8 Mbps, or 12 times the speed of a fibre-optic communication delivery to a person’s premises (FTTP). The “Kizuna,” which also means “bond” in Japanese, is expected to begin transmitting and receiving data with terrestrial infrastructures in July after completing preparations and confirming the satellite’s safety. The satellite will enable students in Asian countries to communicate smoothly and with no time lag among one another, as if they were in the same classroom, it said. The satellite will to last five years, an agency spokeswoman said. The launch was delayed by one week after JAXA said it had discovered a problem with the gas jet thruster for its launch rocket.
Source: AFP
Cool! Japs are the first in thah kind of stuff
cool
australia should get this like NEVER
wow ! 1.2gbps LOL
that’s why I wanna move to Japan. to have sex with random girls on trains and 1.2 Gbps wireless
My name’s Kizuna. James Kizuna.
after 5 years it becomes another piece of junk orbiting earth..
We’re very near Japan, hope we would also be blessed by that flying iron thingy in the space ^_^ LOL!…
Seriously I hope we are also part of that big project.
Damn I wanna live in japan!
That’s fast.
Who actually gets to benefit from this connection on crack?
342m ain’t cheap, someone gotta pay.
i pitched in for this project, i want my 1.2gbs
Americans will attempt to shoot this one down
157,300 kB/s
154 mB/s
XViD DVDRiP: 10 seconds
x264 HDRiP: 50 seconds
….. theoretically …..
asians will take over the economy later on lol this is just the beggining :O
but nice work wit the internet satellite!
haha ….. students with superfast DSL connections ….. filesharing was never meant to be so easy rofl
Japan not contented with their relatively FAST 100mb/s, but 1.2Gb/s is overkill. Imagine the requirements, satellite dish and uber high tech LAN card hence expensive!
Fastest porn - EVER!!!
LOL .. people will start seeding complete blue ray isos like nothing
and they still cant have sex with out a permit and have to watch cartoon p0rn
@14 i dont know but i been told, the universities already got that, files on their servers..
and yes, i too want to move to japan but not for the net..
..china would be fine too or india, i hear there the fat guys are considered wealthy, not poor sad bastards..
#17… hahaha “blue” what?
lol this means 1,2gbps shared, not per user! so if every japanse citizen used this at the same time it’s only 1200/127*10^6 = 0.000009449 mbit/s
@21
It wouldn’t be the fastest it it was shared. LOL, tosser.
fkn awesome, asian countries like japan and korea are miles ahead of all of us
good timing, since now hidef movies will become standard soon..
time to move to japan i think! damm, whole x264 in minutes? fk me! :O
btw, nz dsl sux balls
Here in Turkey current maximum adsl spped is 4mb and i have to pay 40 dollars for 1mb connection and i can’T use whole of my connection my maximum download speed is like 100kb :S
@24, ddddddamn you’re gettin took!
Well, 1.2 Gbs wouldn’t be the average, that is no where near the average speed per transponder and they really don’t use just one. So, you figure it all in, the 1.2 is probably the sell rate, like when you cable company says 14mb/se and you get 5….
It is probably going to be equivalent to FIOS, kinda…
See, they have to solve the issue of going 230 some mile up and 230 some miles down, traveling the internet, getting a package, going back up 230 miles then back down… and you end up with *cough* 400 ms ping times. If anyone remembers Starband, or the still used direcduo thing… Radio waves only travel so fast…, and downloads would suck because your up speed will be crap. Then, every-time it rains…. bye bye internet connection.
i think i’m gonna need a bigger hard drive
@The_Doctor
“The KIZUNA (WINDS) does not require costly ground equipment. If you install a small antenna (about 45 cm in diameter) at your house, you can receive data at up to 155Mbps and transmit data at up to 6 Mbps.” - this is for residential setup
Source:
http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f14/overview/kizuna_e.html
155 mbps down/6 mbps up is good enough for me.
hehe it looks like a mouse, it just needs some fluff lmao
“UP to 155 mbps/ 6 mbps” At lest now we know what the actual coverage is so x users per transponder of 1.2 Gbps with an unknown over-subscription rate. Don’t go moving to japan to find out you get only 30 once everyone starts hitting it
Starband was rocking fast when it was first deployed, then us testers saw users come on, and man did it suck, but it was still a good 2 mbps.. I am sure they perfected the compression and the size of the equipment needed, but they still need to cover 920 miles on top of a regular Internet route, plus the delay of the satellite, every device even your home router adds a delay in latency, epscially radio repeaters.
rs links?? i want to try out this experimental satellite on my ubuntu before i buy it.
Uhhm.. the satellite goes around the earth.. how does is still keep the same speed if its like above New York?
YOu need like a 5 meter dish to get the Gbps speed
elektro, when its above other parts of the world the satelitte beams the signals to flying ducks and pigeons, who fly it to Asia straight into the floppy disks of their PCs.
@33 / elektro: I am not an expert but I think there is some type of satellites that move around with the earth, i.e. “stay” more or less at the same position. Correct me if I’m wrong. I am not sure but it’s probalby this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
@4 I loled
why just 5 years?
Just wanted to point out the bad grammar: “Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite.” What kind of a sentence is that? That suggests that the satellite is called “Saturday”. Typical American-butchered-English though, isn’t it?
damn, japan is way cooler than my country
342M for 5 years? That’s some expensive file sharing… Then again, I’m basing that on what happens in the U.S. Maybe kids actually use the internet for educational purposes in Japan…?
Seriously, the US has got to get up off its arse and start challenging the rest of the world. We used to be supreme in technology: medical, military, etc. Now we’ve got a country full of entitlement-demanding citizens with an ever-shrinking industrious populace. We’ve got to turn it around.
Don’t vote for Hillary!
where do i sign up?
@33 and @36 lol your both wrong try this ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary
@ 40 - GDesigner
Don’t pretend to be American. No one here in the US says ARSE, you ASS
By the way, we’re still supreme in military, you ASS
Don’t vote for hillary
and here i am sitting in india using a 256 kbps conection and the max ive used here in india is 2mbps thats legally if ur talking
Damn i need to get this degree and find some job in japan
Hey, the USA put men on the friggin’ MOON forty years ago! Yeah, right.
This would be useful for web browsing, research, and academic use only.
It would NOT be useful for gaming.
The Doctor and others are correct. There is a delay caused by the distance a signal transmission travels from the earth to the satellite (in geosynchronous orbit) then back to earth. On average, with the overhead caused by the internet and intermediate routers and retransmission devices, the latency is anywhere from 400ms to 750ms. That ping will kill you dead in any realtime online game.
Imagine clicking your mailbox in WoW, and 1.5 seconds later it actually appearing to open on your screen (750ms to get the click command from your computer to the server, then another 750ms to get the acknowledgment and open mail command from the server back to your computer). Might not seem like much, but the average time it takes now is about 80ms.
Would be awesome for downloading tho, where latency isn’t that big a deal and you are more concerned with throughput.
@12 Yea that would be nice IF we had HD’s that could write that fast…
The name is Bond… Kizuna bond!
hope i can experience that here in the philippines!
DONT VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA!!!
HE IS THE REINCARNATION OF SATAN, ALSO KNOWN AS ANTICHRIST!!!
It should only take 20 years or so for the west to catch up. The we can watch in real time as they pull live monkeys out of their @sses and we’ll say hey we want monkeys too.
super duper high speed connection but still with super duper nosaic JAV..useless..
If that thing comes close to europe on orbit i will hack my way in and rob the bandwith..
#50 - STFU pls…who do u want to vote for ?! bush?
hh that mother %##%%!!!?
or wat?
n that dl speed would be nice but online games would really suck with about cca. 800ms delay..
@KVT yeah their is a problem with the english sheep shaggers on this site pretending to be Americans. You can tell because they spell ass in like benders do aka arse(typical english bender way of spelling)
in Bahrain maximum internet speed connection 4mb/s
and my speednet is 512kb/s for 66$/mounth
and download limit 8gb, then speed become 128kb/s
i hope Bahrain is one of asia country