NATO's Orbital Internet Backup Plan

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NATO’s Emergency Plan for an Orbital Backup Internet

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The world’s submarine fiber-optic lines carry more than 95 percent of intercontinental Internet communications.

NATO 's HEIST project is now investigating ways to protect member countries’ undersea Internet lines, including these 22 Atlantic cable paths, by quickly detecting cable damage and rerouting data to satellites.

The project aims to expand the number of pathways for data to travel.

HEIST team plans to use higher bandwidth laser optics systems to communicate with satellites.

NASA has long been working on optical communications, most recently with an experiment carried on board its Psyche asteroid mission.

NASA says satellite lasers can carry at least 40 times as much data as radio transmissions, but it’s still far short of cable capacity.

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