IEEE Spectrum March 9, 2018
According to IEEE Spectrum among the recently launched satellites, there are four satellites called SpaceBee-1, 2, 3, and 4 developed by a company in California. According to the company its network could enable satellite communications for orders of magnitude less cost than existing options. It envisages the worldwide tracking of ships and cars, new agricultural technologies, and low-cost connectivity for humanitarian efforts anywhere in the world. FCC feared that the four SpaceBees now orbiting the Earth would pose an unacceptable collision risk for other spacecraft...read more.
This illustration from a March 2018 FCC filing by Swarm Technologies shows the proposed network architecture for the startup’s IoT satellites.