Connectivity and Innovation

There is an extraordinary large connectivity gap amongst the people and the nations of the African continent with the rest of the world, especially in rural regions. This gap enhances the digital divide, causing the lack of strong connectivity to allow for access to the global online world and marketplace. This has widened the gap of digital distancing amongst high income and low income nations and their communities. The problem is set to widen given the high cost of connectivity to the internet and to people across different communities. There is also a strong underserving of advanced observation of crop yields for agriculture, a lack of communication relay, weather forecasting, inadequate navigation (GPS), broadcasting, scientific research, and Earth observation in the region where satellites uses are concerned.

This leaves the community very vulnerable to disaster-based issues ranging from floods, storms, erosion and more. It also makes traveling across regions more challenging with sharing and broadcasting information at a comparatively low level. The areas where satellites can improve the quality of life are completely lacking in the capacity to make a positive impact on the community. Black Star Space is addressing this gap and challenges caused by the low connectivity and coverage in these key regions that affect the lives of people. 

This is the reason for creating Black Star Space, a satellite space-based organization leveraging artificial intelligence to build infrastructure to tap into Low Earth Orbit satellites and develop high level satellites to tackle issues pertaining to poor connectivity, low connectivity and in some cases no connectivity at all.