What makes you think NASA is doing this alone? ... below is a...

What makes you think NASA is doing this alone? ... below is a recent extract from Glen Tindall interview

SpaceConnect:
So with your recent agreement with CASIS
what time frame are we looking at with that?
Glen Tindall:
It’s over the next twoyears. Our satellite
constellation won’t be in orbit until 2024.
So between now and thenwe’ll be flying up
a terminal on one of the resupply missions
and testing to ground and then when the
constellation goes live in 2024, we’ll have
an operating service off the ISS.
Space Connect:
So that terminal, would that be just going
up with a ride share? Or is it going with the
crew in the ISS?
Glen Tindall:
Yes. The ISS has regular missions for
resupply. So apart from bringing crew up,
they bring food for the crew and other
boxes of things. So one ofthe boxes of
things will be our optical terminal.
Space Connect:
I bet their nerves are growing in
anticipation for such a pretty amazing
feat.
Glen Tindall:
Absolutely, we’re really, really looking
forward to it and I think bumping up the
bandwidth from a few tens of megabits to,
above a gigabit, will make a big difference
to the users on board. It’ll enable more
and better scientific data to be gathered
and, you know, in 30 years of doing
business, I’ve never met someone who’s
had too much bandwidth, there’s always
room for more bandwidth! We have to
keep providing more and morein order to
satisfy customers’ requirements, and we’re
on a very clear pathway to do that.