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	<dc:date>2026-04-30T19:14:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> How Many Internet-Service Satellites Will Be in Orbit at the End of China's Five-Year Plan? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[China's latest five-year plan accelerates its push into low Earth orbit, with competing constellations projected to field tens of thousands of satellites by 2030, narrowing the gap with Starlink while raising concerns over congestion. <a href="https://circleid.com/postshow-many-internet-service-satellites-will-be-in-orbit-at-the-end-of-chinas-five-year-plan">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Starlink's Role in Last Year's Los Angeles Fires (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During California's devastating 2025 wildfires, Starlink, Tesla, and T-Mobile offered vital emergency connectivity. Their improvised response reveals both the promise of satellite-based disaster aid and the need for formalised coordination with public agencies. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsstarlinks-role-in-last-years-los-angeles-fires">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Starlink in Ukraine: What Three Years of Wartime Connectivity Taught Us (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What began as an emergency response evolved into critical wartime infrastructure. Ukraine's experience with Starlink reveals the strategic risks and benefits of relying on privately operated networks for national resilience and defence. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-in-ukraine-what-three-years-of-wartime-connectivity-taught-us">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Starlink and the Seven Dwarfs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starlink dominates the satellite internet race, echoing IBM's past supremacy in computing. But geopolitical divides, advancing rivals, and Elon Musk's controversies suggest its lead will narrow as competitors gain ground in a fragmented global market. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-and-the-seven-dwarfs">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Western LEO Satellite Internet Update: OneWeb, Telesat, Amazon Project Kuiper and IRIS² (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postswestern-leo-satellite-internet-update-oneweb-telesat-kuiper-iris</link>
		<description><![CDATA[While Starlink dominates the low-Earth orbit internet race, rivals like OneWeb, Telesat, Amazon's Project Kuiper, and Europe's IRIS² are slowly building capacity, buoyed by geopolitical necessity, state support, and commercial partnerships. <a href="https://circleid.com/postswestern-leo-satellite-internet-update-oneweb-telesat-kuiper-iris">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> SES Pursues Multi-Orbit Satellite Internet via Strategic Partnerships (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsses-pursues-multi-orbit-satellite-internet-via-strategic-partnerships</link>
		<description><![CDATA[SES's first multi-orbit partnership was Cruise mPOWERED + Starlink, providing a managed blend of SES MEO and Starlink LEO service for maritime operators, and we can expect similar bundled services in aviation and enterprise markets. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsses-pursues-multi-orbit-satellite-internet-via-strategic-partnerships">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Chinese LEO Satellite Internet Update: Guowang, Qianfan, and Honghu-3 (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postschinese-leo-satellite-internet-update-guowang-qianfan-and-honghu-3</link>
		<description><![CDATA[China has pursued a strategy of competition among government-owned organizations, and it initiated two government-owned constellation projects, Hongyun and Hongyan, in 2018. In April 2020, China's National Development and Reform Commission included "satellite internet" on its "new infrastructures" list, and China applied to the ITU for a new constellation, called GW. <a href="https://circleid.com/postschinese-leo-satellite-internet-update-guowang-qianfan-and-honghu-3">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> OneWeb Can't Come Close to Replacing Starlink in Ukraine, but It Could Complement It (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsoneweb-cant-come-close-to-replacing-starlink-in-ukraine-but-it-could-complement-it</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Elon Musk assured us that he would not stop the Starlink service in Ukraine. But, given his feud with Trump, his criticism of President Zelensky, and his rash actions with DOGE, can he be trusted? (His termination of USAID is estimated to have resulted in 340,000 deaths so far.) When askedabout Musk's influence, Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, said he declined to comment on "the internal politics of the United States and who should influence these decisions" but added "If changes happen and if our US partners and friends are changing their plans, of course we will be ready for plan B. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsoneweb-cant-come-close-to-replacing-starlink-in-ukraine-but-it-could-complement-it">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Remembering Dave Taht (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsremembering-dave-taht</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Taht died on April 1st. I met him only recently, and never in person, but his passing saddens me. His technical work and evangelism have improved the Internet, and I will give some examples of his contributions to the Internet community and users, but I am sad because he was a good person -- idealistic, unselfish, open, and funny. I'll miss him. First, his contributions, then his values. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsremembering-dave-taht">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Starlink Is Critical in Support of Ukraine, and It Will Continue (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-is-critical-in-support-of-ukraine-and-it-will-continue</link>
		<description><![CDATA[At 4:04 am on February 26 Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, requested Starlink service from Elon Musk, and at 2:45 pm on the 26th, Elon Musk tweeted "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route." On February 28 at 12:29 pm, Fedorov posted a photo of a truckload of terminals. (Kyiv is 10 hours ahead of California) and an engineer, Oleg Kutkov, posted the first tweet from Ukraine. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-is-critical-in-support-of-ukraine-and-it-will-continue">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Guowang Finally Launches Ten Large Production Satellites (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsguowang-finally-launches-ten-large-production-satellites</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In April 2020, The Chinese State Council's executive meeting declared information technology, including satellite Internet, an important part of the "new technology," and in October, China applied for Guowang, a 12,992-satellite Internet service constellation. Subsequently, a few Guowang test satellites were launched, and two other large Chinese constellations were announced, and one, Thousand Sails, already has 54 satellites in orbit. (Thousand Sails launches have had problems with debris and orbit raising, which attests to the immaturity of the Chinese space industry). Finally, Guowang has launched its first production satellites. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsguowang-finally-launches-ten-large-production-satellites">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Starlink Backhaul for Rural Community WiFi: A Game Changer in Kenya? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-connectivity-for-rural-communities</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Starlink launched maritime service in July 2022, and by January 2023 Elcome International LLC, a maritime technology solution provider since 1970, had installed multi-antenna Starlink Maritime arrays on two super yachts with more than 100 passengers and crew. Elcome launched its Starlink maritime service in May 2024 and now has over 3,000 terminals under management. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsstarlink-connectivity-for-rural-communities">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Affordable Starlink Prices Coming to Low and Middle-Income Countries (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20240913-affordable-starlink-prices-coming-to-low-and-middle-income-countries</link>
		<description><![CDATA[SpaceX first departed from its uniform Starlink pricing policy when it offered a reduced price for throttled service in France two years ago. Since then, many new, higher-capacity satellites have been launched, enabling SpaceX to reduce prices in low and middle-income countries like Kenya. Kenya had 405 geostationary satellite internet subscribers when Starlink became available in July 2023. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20240913-affordable-starlink-prices-coming-to-low-and-middle-income-countries">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Russian Internet Pioneer Sentenced to Two Years in Prison (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20240821-russian-internet-pioneer-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Russian Internet pioneer Alexey Soldatov was sentenced to two years in a labor colony on charges of "abuse of power." Soldatov, the co-founder of Russia's first Internet service provider, Relcom, was convicted for his role as a co-founder and director of the Russian Institute for Development of Public Networks (RIPN). RIPN was founded in 1992 to support research and education networking. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20240821-russian-internet-pioneer-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Geely Geespace Update - Global Centimeter-Level Positioning Services (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20240714-geely-geespace-update-global-centimeter-level-positioning-services</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Chinese automobile conglomerate Geely has made significant strides since I last wrote about their Geesat LEO constellation for mobile vehicle connectivity. They launched the first nine satellites in June 2022 and a second batch of eleven satellites in February 2024. The mass of the first nine satellites was 100 kg, and the mass of the second eleven was 130 kg, so they are not identical. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20240714-geely-geespace-update-global-centimeter-level-positioning-services">More...</a>]]></description>
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