"cool design"

"thats great but how much the price ?"

"SATCOM is unusable for most of us, but not because of latency. It is possible with some satellite companies to obtain the less than .5 milliseconds latency required for real time control, point to point, but it is a dedicated pipe, and…"

"thanx for all"

"Quite nice, but I think it would be great if someone could make the DroneCell work with APM, that would be the first step towards amateur looooong range UAV-link :)"

"@Tom  It's both, it can be used in Normal Mode ("Gateway mode"), which allow [near] real time messaging (if you consider upto 3min delay). That mode is very limited and only works in major markets (does not work in oceanic…"

"Years ago, before the availability of fiberoptic networks across our province here in northern Alberta, brought high speed Internet, our college did extensive testing and found satellite to be unsuitable for multimedia of any kind. With the…"

"If my memory serves me correctly from a study I did several years ago, Orbcomm is a store-and-froward satellite system.  When a satellite happens to pass overhead, you dump your data to it, it then will drop your data off at the next available…"

"Nice catch Gary!"

"There is a portion of the sat band being allocated for dedicated UAS command and control, along with some lower frequencies as well. Do not expect RC type command and control frequencies to be allowed to do anything other than LOS stuff. Radio…"

"Satellite communication is the holy grail.  Hopefully after Google buys out 3drobotics, sparkfun, & hobbyking, they'll get the satellite RC broadband running. For now, we're stuck with Orbcomm.  According to kiwipedia,…"

"Haha good one Gary! :P"

"Satellite modems can be tiny, but size isn't the issue, expensive satellite networks are"

"It doesn't say Spacecraft :) lol. Hey that is interesting, wonder why? I wonder how much the sat service cost. "

"Oh look what the FCC warning says on it."

"Pretty cool,  I am not to sure but dont you need to pay satellite company to use their satellites which could be expensive."