This photo shows 60 Starlink satellites stacked on top of each other before they were released from SpaceX’s Falcon 9-rocket in 2019. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The new Low Earth Orbit satellites could make the country dependent on a foreign tech giant but could...
Canada’s Nunavut region (here Iqaluit) and Nunavik have similar connectivity needs. Image: Michael Delaunay Three new communities in the Eastern Hudson Bay region have been connected to the fibre-optic network, according to an announcement by Hilda Snowball,...
In the new video course, Dina, the host, speaks directly to Greenlanders struggling with anxiety. The course also employs animations like emojis to convey its messages. Photo: Screenshot from mindhelper.gl Remote towns and a lack of Greenlandic speaking therapists are...
Estimating the amount of sea ice is limited by its complex composition. Image : Heiner Kubny Researchers have just developed a new method for studying the extent of pack ice, using fiber optic lines – an ingenious idea that uses accessible technology in an...
The Quintillion fiber optic cable network to Nome. The lightning bolt marks the point where the incident took place (Image: Quintillion) An American telecommunications company with ambitions to connect Japan to Europe via the Arctic has suffered a setback: An iceberg...