Outernet is a proposed global satellite network that will provide free internet access to all people around the world by broadcasting data from hundreds of cube satellites in space. It aims to address the lack of internet access for over 60% of the global population, especially in remote areas without cell towers or internet cables, by transmitting selected internet content like audio, video, text and applications to any Wi-Fi device. The project is currently being developed by an American non-profit organization with the goal of launching initial test satellites in 2015 and beginning broadcasts later that year to guarantee universal access to information.
1. Information for the world from
outer space
UNRESTRICTED, GLOBALLY ACCESSIBLE, BROADCAST DATA.
INTERNET
AVAILABLE TO ALL OF HUMANITY.
FOR FREE.
2. WHAT IS OUTERNET?
Outernet is a global network of cube satellites broadcasting
Internet data to all the people on the planet - for free.
Outernet project currently under development by a US
company Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF).
“Outernet's goal is to provide free access to internet data
through WIFI, made available effectively to all parts of the world.
3. HUMAN’S LIFE WITHOUT OUTERNET
There are more computing devices in the world than people, yet
less than 40% of the global population has access to the wealth of
knowledge found on the Internet.
In some places, such as rural areas and remote regions, cell
towers and Internet cables simply don't exist.
4. HOW DOES IT WORK?
Hundreds of cube satellites will be put into outer space through
which we can access free internet anywhere in the world.
Each satellite receives data streams from a network of ground
stations and transmits that data in a continuous loop until new
content is received.
6. WHAT PROBLEM IS OUTERNET
SOLVING?
The price of Internet data in many parts of the world continues to
be unaffordable for the majority of global citizens.
“Outernet will offer worldwide access to information to everyone,
including those who today are beyond the geographic reach of
the internet or can’t afford it.”
Outernet will guarantee this right by taking a practical approach
to information delivery.
Outernet's near-term goal is to provide the entire world
withbroadcast data, Internet access for everyone. For free.
7. BENEFITS OF OUTERNET
wireless connection to the Web available for free to every person
in the world.
Outernet will also offer a humanitarian communications system,
relaying public service transmissions during emergencies in
places where there is no access to conventional communications
networks due to natural disasters or man-made restrictions on
the free-flow of information.
Outer net will use a network of small satellites to transmit
selected internet data – audio, video, text and applications – to
any Wi-Fi-enabled device, including mobile phones, anywhere in
the world at no cost.
8. Anyone with a device will be able to receive the signals,
regardless of connectivity to the regular internet.
Costly data plans from local telecom operators will no longer be a
barrier to accessing information.
9. WHEN WE CAN USE OUTERNET?
Outernet will bring these technologies together, provide
standardization where none exists, and build a genuinely
innovative global media delivery platform.
MDIF plans to formally request NASA to use the International
Space Station to test their technology in September 2014.
Manufacturing and launching of satellites would begin in early
2015, and Outernet is planned to begin broadcasting in June
2015.