SINGAPORE -- When Japan's Rakuten announced this week that it had acquired a stake in AST & Science, the Texas-based outfit building the world's first space-based mobile broadband network, it brought home a new reality: the satellite revolution is coming.
Inexpensive smallsats are replacing large satellites, presenting a challenge to existing manufacturers. © Mitsubishi Electric/ Kyodo
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