Rakuten satellite project to get up to $926m Japanese government grant
Japan has decided it does not want to depend on Elon Musk to keep its phones connected from space. The government is set to provide up to ¥150 billion, roughly $926 million, in subsidies to a consortium led by Rakuten Group to build a homegrown low-Earth-orbit satellite communications network. A project Tokyo frames explicitly as […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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