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- 0:00This is Spacetime Series 29, episode 48
- 0:03for broadcast on the 22nd of April,
- 0:052026.
- 0:07Coming up on Spaceime, discovery that
- 0:09young sunlike stars dim quickly. Good
- 0:12news for the possibility of life. A
- 0:14surprisingly speedy solar wind
- 0:16discovered in the inner corona. And the
- 0:18dream chaser space plane passes another
- 0:21critical milestone. All that and more
- 0:24coming up on Spaceime.
- 0:27Welcome to Space Time with Stuart Garry.
- 0:46A new study has discovered that young
- 0:48sunlike stars tend to settle down and
- 0:51start to dim much more quickly than
- 0:53previously thought. and that could
- 0:55potentially benefit any orbiting planets
- 0:57and the prospects of life developing
- 0:59there. The findings reported in the
- 1:01Astrophysical Journal are based on new
- 1:03observations by NASA's Earth orbiting
- 1:05Chandra X-ray Space Telescope.
- 1:08Astronomers use Chandra and other
- 1:09telescopes to monitor how powerful
- 1:11radiation from young stars, often in the
- 1:14form of dangerous X-rays, can pummel any
- 1:16planets orbiting around them. However,
- 1:18they didn't know how long this high
- 1:20energy barrage would last. That's where
- 1:22the new observations come in.
- 1:24Astronomers studied eight clusters of
- 1:26stars between 45 and 750 million years
- 1:29old. The authors found that sunlike
- 1:32stars in these clusters unleashed only
- 1:34about a quarter to a third of the X-rays
- 1:36they're expecting. The study's lead
- 1:38author Constantine Gateman from Penn
- 1:40State University says the observations
- 1:42reveal a natural quietening of young
- 1:44sunlike stars in X-rays, possibly
- 1:46because their internal generation of
- 1:48magnetic fields becomes less efficient.
- 1:50And Gman believes this calming could
- 1:52have been a boom for the formation of
- 1:54life on planets around stars that are
- 1:56younger versions of our own 4.6 billiony
- 1:59old sun. That's because large amounts of
- 2:02X-rays can erode a planet's atmosphere,
- 2:05preventing the formation of molecules
- 2:07necessary for organic life as we know
- 2:09it. On average, 3 milliony old stars
- 2:12with a mass equal to that of the sun
- 2:14produce around a thousand times more
- 2:15X-rays than our sun does today.
- 2:18Meanwhile, 100 milliony old solar mass
- 2:20stars are about 40 times brighter in
- 2:22X-rays than the present day sun. And
- 2:25it's possible that we owe our own
- 2:27existence to our sun doing the same
- 2:28thing several billion years ago. The
- 2:31authors found that stars with about the
- 2:33same mass as the sun whitened down
- 2:35relatively rapidly after just a few
- 2:37hundred million years, while those with
- 2:39less mass kept up their high level of
- 2:41X-ray emissions for much longer.
- 2:44Combined with the decrease in the energy
- 2:46of the X-rays and the disappearance of
- 2:47energetic particles, the sun-sized stars
- 2:50are apparently better suited to host
- 2:52planets with robust atmospheres and
- 2:54possibly blossoming life than previously
- 2:56thought. Gman and colleagues also used
- 2:59data from the European Space Ay's Gaia
- 3:01satellite and the Rosat mission. This
- 3:03allowed them to identify stars that were
- 3:05members of clusters rather than either
- 3:07foreground or background stars. To
- 3:09measure the X-ray outputs from the
- 3:11stars, the authors made new Chandra
- 3:13observations of five clusters with ages
- 3:15between 45 million and 100 million
- 3:18years. In addition to using Chandra and
- 3:20Roset data from archives to study three
- 3:22older stellar clusters with ages between
- 3:24220 and 750 million years, astronomers
- 3:28hadn't previously been able to study the
- 3:30exact X-ray output of stars in this age
- 3:32range. Most have relied on sparse data
- 3:35and a relationship from previous work
- 3:37between the X-ray emissions produced by
- 3:39young stars and their ages and spin
- 3:41rates. Older, more slowly rotating stars
- 3:44are usually fainter in X-rays. But the
- 3:47authors found that X-ray output drops
- 3:49off about 15 times more rapidly than the
- 3:52relationship predicts during the
- 3:53specific adolescent phase. While they're
- 3:56still investigating the cause of the
- 3:58slower than expected activity,
- 3:59astronomers think the processes that
- 4:01generate magnetic fields in these stars
- 4:03may become less efficient, and that
- 4:06would lead to the stars becoming quieter
- 4:07in X-rays more quickly as they age. This
- 4:11is spaceime. Still to come, a
- 4:14surprisingly speedy solar wind found in
- 4:16the sun's inner corona. And the Sierra
- 4:18Space Dreamchaser space plane Tenacity
- 4:20passes another critical milestone. All
- 4:23that and more still to come on Spaceime.
- 4:42A new study has found that the solar
- 4:44wind is traveling up to four times
- 4:45faster than expected in the sun's inner
- 4:48corona. The solar wind is a constant
- 4:50stream of charged particles flowing out
- 4:52from the sun. The new findings reported
- 4:55in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
- 4:57provides fresh details about the inner
- 4:59workings of our local star. The
- 5:01discovery marks the first result from
- 5:03the European Space Ay's Prob 3 mission.
- 5:06Prob 3 comprises two spacecraft flying
- 5:09in millimeter precise formation. The
- 5:12exacting nature of their orbit allows
- 5:14one of the vehicles to directly occult
- 5:16or block out sun from the other. in the
- 5:18process creating an artificial solar
- 5:20eclipse. This allows astronomers to
- 5:23study the sun's faint wispy corona.
- 5:25That's the atmosphere of the sun
- 5:26normally obscured by the sun's glare.
- 5:29The prob 3 mission launched last year
- 5:31and has so far created 57 artificial
- 5:34solar eclipses collecting more than 250
- 5:37hours of highresolution videos of the
- 5:39sun's atmosphere. Before Prober 3, a
- 5:42solar eclipse seen from Earth was the
- 5:44best way to see the sun's inner corona.
- 5:47See, when the moon blocks out the sun's
- 5:49direct light, scientists can capture
- 5:51details in the solar atmosphere around
- 5:53the sun. The problem is total solar
- 5:55eclipses only happen on average once
- 5:57every 18 months or so. And when they do
- 6:00happen, totality, that's when the moon
- 6:02totally blocks out the sun, usually only
- 6:04lasts for a few minutes at most. So, the
- 6:06observations by Prober 3, amounts to the
- 6:09same amount of observing time as 5,000
- 6:11solar eclipse campaigns on Earth. This
- 6:14is the first time astronomers have been
- 6:16able to carefully track how material
- 6:18from the sun moves through the inner
- 6:20corona where space weather is born. For
- 6:23around 5 hours at a time, the occult
- 6:26spacecraft acts like an artificial moon,
- 6:28blocking out the sun's direct light. So
- 6:30the other spacecraft, the chronograph,
- 6:32can see the sun's corona. And Proer 3's
- 6:35chronograph instrument can see down to
- 6:3770,000 km above the sun's surface.
- 6:40That's 1/10enth of the sun's radius. No
- 6:42other space-based chronograph can
- 6:44observe the light scattering off
- 6:46particles in the sun's corona this close
- 6:48to the solar surface. The instrument
- 6:50takes one or two images a minute. These
- 6:53are then combined into videos that
- 6:54reveal never before seen movement in the
- 6:57hard to observe inner corona. Isis
- 6:59Prober 3 project scientist Joe Zender
- 7:01says these sorts of intricate movements
- 7:03have never previously been observed in
- 7:05optical wavelengths so low in the sun's
- 7:07inner corona. Sender says probe 3 can
- 7:10track how the solar wind speeds up
- 7:12through the sun, showing speeds and
- 7:14accelerations that are surprising
- 7:16scientists. Just like wind here on
- 7:18Earth, the solar wind can be fast or
- 7:20slow, smooth or gusty. A fast solar wind
- 7:23usually flows in smooth currents from
- 7:25magnetic structures called coronal
- 7:27holes. In contrast, slow solar winds are
- 7:30variable and gusty, making understanding
- 7:33how it all works more difficult.
- 7:35Scientists think the slow solar wind is
- 7:37generated by the sun's magnetic field
- 7:39lines, changing how they connect, merge,
- 7:42and separate. This process pushes out
- 7:44blobs of plasma in large bright rays in
- 7:46the corona called streamers. In the
- 7:49inner corona, a region difficult to
- 7:50observe, astronomers saw slow solar wind
- 7:53gusts moving three or four times faster
- 7:55than expected. Previously, scientists
- 7:57had found that close to the sun's
- 7:59surface, the solar wind should have been
- 8:01traveling at speeds of around 100 km/s.
- 8:04but instead they track some of these
- 8:05blobs of plasma moving at between 250
- 8:08and 500 kilometers a second. Overall,
- 8:10the wide range of speeds, accelerations,
- 8:13and movement directions in the data
- 8:15explain why the slow solar wind is so
- 8:18hard to understand. It's naturally not
- 8:20uniform, involving lots of smallcale
- 8:23structures in the sun's magnetic field,
- 8:24which astronomers can now see thanks to
- 8:26Proverb 3. The discovery comes just
- 8:29weeks after contact was reestablished
- 8:31with one of the spacecraft which had
- 8:33suddenly gone silent following an
- 8:35onboard glitch, the cause of which is
- 8:36still being investigated. Zender says
- 8:39this first data set is just the
- 8:41beginning of a much longer journey to
- 8:42fully understand what's happening in the
- 8:44sun. Most of the data collected by
- 8:47Proverb 3 so far is yet to be analyzed.
- 8:50Key open questions yet to be answered
- 8:52include finding out exactly what
- 8:54accelerates the solar wind, how the sun
- 8:56flings out material in coronal mass
- 8:58ejections, and why the solar corona is
- 9:01so much hotter than the surface of the
- 9:03sun. After all, things are supposed to
- 9:05get cooler the further away you get from
- 9:07the heat source. This report on the
- 9:09brilliance of the prob 3 mission from
- 9:12TV.
- 9:12>> During a solar eclipse, the Earth is
- 9:14plunged into darkness and the sun's
- 9:16ghostly atmosphere becomes visible. But
- 9:19what exactly causes solar eclipses? And
- 9:22how do scientists create their own
- 9:23artificial solar eclipses? And how will
- 9:26our mission prob 3 generate artificial
- 9:29solar eclipses on demand? Let's find
- 9:32out. So, how do solar eclipses happen?
- 9:36The answer is simple. It's when the sun,
- 9:39moon, and earth are perfectly aligned
- 9:41and the moon covers the entire disc of
- 9:43the sun. The fact that solar eclipses
- 9:46happen at all is a cosmic coincidence.
- 9:49It just so happens that the sun is 400
- 9:51times bigger than our moon, but also 400
- 9:54times further away. So, the two bodies
- 9:57look the same size in our sky.
- 10:00Solar eclipses are extremely valuable
- 10:02because they allow scientists to study
- 10:03the sun's atmosphere, also known as the
- 10:06solar corona. Scientists are
- 10:08particularly interested in this region
- 10:09of the sun because it's the source of
- 10:11solar wind and space weather which can
- 10:13impact satellites and Earth. These
- 10:16effects are especially noticeable during
- 10:18coronal mass ejections. Enormous bubbles
- 10:21of superheated gas ejected from the sun.
- 10:24The solar corona is a million times
- 10:26fainter than the sun's surface. So the
- 10:28light from the solar disc needs to be
- 10:30blocked in order to see it. This is why
- 10:33eclipses are ideal for studying this
- 10:35region. and scientists trek all over the
- 10:37world to see them.
- 10:40Unfortunately though, solar eclipses are
- 10:42a rare phenomenon occurring only for a
- 10:44few minutes every 18 months or so. But
- 10:47how do we know anything about the solar
- 10:49corona given that eclipses occur so
- 10:51rarely? Scientists use coronagraphs,
- 10:54special telescopes that use a disc to
- 10:57block the sun's bright surface. In other
- 11:00words, a coronagraph produces an
- 11:02artificial solar eclipse
- 11:04>> and liftoff of SOHO.
- 11:07>> Coronographs are not only used on the
- 11:09ground but also in space. Previous sun
- 11:11observing missions such as SOHO
- 11:13incorporate coronagraphs to study the
- 11:15corona, but their effectiveness is
- 11:17limited. Mimicking a real solar eclipse
- 11:20is difficult.
- 11:22When using a coronagraph, light spills
- 11:24around the edge of the disc, distorting
- 11:26the view we get. The best way to
- 11:28minimize this spillover stray light is
- 11:30to move the disc further away from the
- 11:32telescope lens. But how much further
- 11:35away? Approximately
- 11:37150 m. The length of 1 and 1/2 football
- 11:40pitches. And sending something that big
- 11:43into space is just not a practical idea.
- 11:46So how can we create a perfect
- 11:49artificial solar eclipse in space? This
- 11:52is where our Robbo 3 mission comes in.
- 11:55Instead of relying on a single
- 11:56impractically long coronagraph, Proer 3
- 11:59consists of two spacecraft, a camera
- 12:02satellite and a disc satellite. They fly
- 12:05together so precisely that they operate
- 12:07like a single coronagraph around 150 m
- 12:11long.
- 12:13One spacecraft block the sun creating an
- 12:15artificial eclipse while the other
- 12:17observed the sun. To make this possible,
- 12:20the two spacecraft have to stay
- 12:22positioned with millimeter scale
- 12:24accuracy to create artificial solar
- 12:26eclipses on demand, significantly
- 12:29advancing our understanding of this
- 12:31mysterious region.
- 12:32>> This is spacetime. Still to come, the
- 12:36Dreamchaser space plane Tenacity
- 12:37completes a major acoustic test
- 12:39milestone for NASA. And later in the
- 12:41science report, engineers and scientists
- 12:44looking at ways to save Venice from the
- 12:46threat of rising sea levels. All that
- 12:48and more still to come on Spaceime.
- 13:07The Sierra Space Dreamchaser space plane
- 13:09Tenacity has just completed launch
- 13:11acoustic testing at NASA's space systems
- 13:14processing facility. The key milestone
- 13:16event validates the vehicle's ability to
- 13:19withstand the intense vibrations
- 13:21produced during launch. The test in a
- 13:23speciallyesed hanger at the Kennedy
- 13:25Space Center in Florida uses an array of
- 13:2790 stacked giant speakers to simulate
- 13:30the sounds and vibrations experienced
- 13:32during blastoff. The Dreamchaser space
- 13:35plane was positioned at the center of
- 13:36the test setup with its wings stowed,
- 13:38mirroring the configuration it would
- 13:40have when it's mounted inside the 5 m
- 13:42payload fairing during an actual launch.
- 13:45The successful test validated the
- 13:47durability of DreamChaser's critical
- 13:49electronic systems and confirmed the
- 13:51structural integrity of the spacecraft.
- 13:53So, Dreamchaser has now achieved several
- 13:56key milestones, including EMI and EMC
- 13:59testing, high-speed towe testing, and
- 14:02post landing recovery rehearsals. It's
- 14:04also demonstrated command and telemetry
- 14:07capabilities with mission control using
- 14:09NASA's tracking and data relay satellite
- 14:11system. With the acoustic testing now
- 14:13complete in Florida, Dreamchas has been
- 14:15transported back to Colorado for final
- 14:17modifications and mission specific
- 14:19upgrades. Sir Space Dreamchaser program
- 14:22manager Dan Polus says it's a key step
- 14:25in getting the spacecraft ready for
- 14:27flight. Now NASA's slated Dreamchaser's
- 14:30tenacity for initial six missions, its
- 14:33first possibly later this year. That
- 14:3645-day flight won't visit the
- 14:37International Space Station, but instead
- 14:39undertake low Earth orbit testing.
- 14:42Although originally designed to carry
- 14:44crews of up to seven to the
- 14:45International Space Station, the
- 14:47reusable wing space plane will only be
- 14:48used by NASA to transport cargo and
- 14:51supplies to and from the orbiting
- 14:52outpost as part of NASA's commercial
- 14:54resupply services to contract. Dreamchas
- 14:57is capable of carrying 5,000 kg of
- 15:00pressurized, 500 kg of unpressurized
- 15:03cargo during the ascent phase on its
- 15:05uphill climb to the space station. And
- 15:07on its return to Earth, it can carry up
- 15:09to 1,750 kg of cargo and returned
- 15:13experiments. But the spacecraft is
- 15:15designed to be fitted with an expendable
- 15:17pressurized cargo module called Shooting
- 15:19Star attached aft that'll increase its
- 15:21cargo capacity by an additional 4,500
- 15:24kg. Right now, Dream Chase is designed
- 15:27to fly aboard a United Launch Alliance
- 15:29Vulcan Central rocket. After docking
- 15:31with the orbiting outpost and completing
- 15:33its mission, it'll then return to Earth,
- 15:35gliding to a soft landing on the former
- 15:37Space Shuttle runway at the Kennedy
- 15:39Space Center with Tenacity completing
- 15:41the final stages of its development
- 15:43before being handed over to NASA.
- 15:45Serious Space are now building a second
- 15:47Dreamchaser, this one named Reverence.
- 15:49And there are plans for a specialized
- 15:51third Dreamchaser as well, but that'll
- 15:54be part of a classified national
- 15:55security contract, so no details are
- 15:57being released. There's even the
- 15:59possibility of a fourth Dreamchaser.
- 16:01This one for the European Space Agency,
- 16:03specifically modified for launch aboard
- 16:05an Aran 6 rocket. Exciting times ahead.
- 16:09This is spaceime.
- 16:26And time now to take another brief look
- 16:28at some of the other stories making news
- 16:29in science this week with a science
- 16:31report. Scientists say long-term HIV
- 16:35remission has been achieved in a patient
- 16:37following a stem cell transplant from a
- 16:39sibling carrying a specific genetic
- 16:41mutation. A report in the journal Nature
- 16:43says the 63-year-old man was diagnosed
- 16:46with HIV1 subtype B back in 2006 when he
- 16:49was aged 44. In 2020, he received a stem
- 16:53cell transplant from a sibling with a
- 16:55CCR5 delta 32 mutation to treat a type
- 16:58of blood cancer. Over time, the donor
- 17:01cells were found to replace the patients
- 17:03own immune cells in blood, bone marrow,
- 17:05and gut tissues. Analysis of biopsies
- 17:08taken two years after the transplant
- 17:10showed no HIV genetic material
- 17:12integrated into the DNA of the man's
- 17:14infected cells in blood or gut samples.
- 17:17And further analysis of the man cells
- 17:19showed no virus capable of multiplying.
- 17:22The human immuno deficiency virus HIV
- 17:25attacks the immune system causing
- 17:27acquired immune deficiency syndrome or
- 17:29AIDS which allows opportunistic diseases
- 17:32normally easily combed by the body to
- 17:34take hold and eventually kill the
- 17:36patient. The World Health Organization
- 17:38says since first being identified back
- 17:40in 1981, AIDS has killed over 44 million
- 17:44people globally and infected up to 115
- 17:47million others with 1.3 million new
- 17:49infections occurring annually. HIV is
- 17:53transmitted through body fluids.
- 17:55Although there is no cure, it can be
- 17:57controlled using a combination of
- 17:59complex drug cocktails.
- 18:02Engineers and scientists have selected
- 18:04four potential strategies for trying to
- 18:06save the city of Venice from rising sea
- 18:09levels. The findings published in the
- 18:11journal Scientific Reports looked at
- 18:13movable barriers, ring dikes, closing
- 18:16the Venetian lagoon, or relocating the
- 18:18entire city as potential strategies. The
- 18:21authors say adding additional measures
- 18:23to the current movable barrier system
- 18:25could be effective against sea level
- 18:26rises up to 1.25 m. They use localized
- 18:30sea level rise projections over the next
- 18:32300 years based on the IPCC 6th
- 18:35assessment report to examine both the
- 18:37existing and potential new adaption
- 18:39strategies for saving Venice. They
- 18:41investigated protecting the center of
- 18:43Venice with dikes that would separate it
- 18:45from the rest of the lagoon. closing the
- 18:47entire lagoon with a super levy or
- 18:49relocating the city, its residents and
- 18:52historic landmarks in land. According to
- 18:54the authors, relocation of the entire
- 18:56city could be necessary under the very
- 18:59high emission scenario with 4.5 me sea
- 19:02level rise, which is projected to occur
- 19:04after the year 2300.
- 19:07A new study has warned that half of all
- 19:10health and medical questions supplied by
- 19:12five artificial intelligence chatbots
- 19:14are problematic. The findings reported
- 19:17in the British Medical Journal follow a
- 19:19test in which Gemini, Deep Seek, Meta
- 19:21AI, Chat GPT, and Grock were challenged
- 19:25to answer 10 open-ended and closed
- 19:27questions in each of five categories:
- 19:29cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition,
- 19:32and athletic performance. The prompts
- 19:35were designed to be similar to common
- 19:36information seeking health and medical
- 19:38queries, and misinformation tropes. And
- 19:41the authors found half of the responses
- 19:43were problematic. 30% somewhat and 20%
- 19:45highly concerning. They found the
- 19:48quality of the responses didn't differ
- 19:50among chatbots, but Grock generated more
- 19:52highly problematic responses than
- 19:54expected, while Gemini generated the
- 19:56fewest. The chatbots appear to perform
- 19:58best in areas of vaccines and cancer and
- 20:01worst in areas of stem cells, athletic
- 20:03performance, and nutrition.
- 20:06Well, there's growing talk in technology
- 20:08circles about the next big revolution in
- 20:10communications, the 6G network. 6G, the
- 20:13upcoming sixth generation cellular
- 20:15network technology, is expected to
- 20:17launch commercially by around 2030.
- 20:20Promising speeds of up to a terabyte per
- 20:22second, which is 100 times faster than
- 20:245G and a thousand times faster than most
- 20:26current home internet systems, along
- 20:28with near zero latency. 6G will focus on
- 20:32integrating artificial intelligence
- 20:34native technology, advanced sensing and
- 20:36expanded connectivity to include
- 20:38satellite networks, enabling
- 20:39applications like holographic
- 20:41communications, precise digital twins,
- 20:43and autonomous drone fleets. With the
- 20:46details, we're joined by technology
- 20:47editor Alex Sahara from tech
- 20:50advice.life.
- 20:51>> This is still at least a good couple of
- 20:53years away from being launched. Normally
- 20:55there's 10 years between each generation
- 20:57and the 2020 was meant to be when 5G
- 21:01started. But we had 5G from about 2018
- 21:04because it was in time for the Olympics
- 21:06in South Korea at the time. The Olympics
- 21:08is great for new TV sales and obviously
- 21:11with being able to transmit high amounts
- 21:14of data then you know from far-flung
- 21:16places. Now we take all this for granted
- 21:18these days but when 5G was first being
- 21:20announced there were lots of promises
- 21:21that you would have much better
- 21:22connectivity at the edge and uh we have
- 21:25faster speeds and I noticed that 5G you
- 21:28know had a dirty little secret which was
- 21:30that 4G could be faster many times than
- 21:325G and uh I was always amazed that you
- 21:34know I could connect to the 4G network
- 21:36and do a speed test and get faster
- 21:37speeds but part of the appeal of 6G is
- 21:41that it's going to be better than 5G. So
- 21:42what does that mean exactly? Well, in
- 21:45this case, you've got artificial
- 21:46intelligence being integrated into the
- 21:48network core. So, you you're going to
- 21:50have what they call native wireless
- 21:53sensing capabilities for environment
- 21:55mapping. And they're going to be using
- 21:56higher frequency bands. When they use
- 21:58higher frequency bands, that's when you
- 21:59can get much faster data speeds. So, you
- 22:02can really send huge amounts of data.
- 22:04And we had this with 5G with millimeter
- 22:06wave. You had to be effectively right
- 22:08next to the tower to be able to get
- 22:09those speeds. and the signal could be
- 22:12stopped by the glass in your window. So,
- 22:15there's still a lot of work to do to
- 22:16make sure that those higher bandwidths
- 22:19can be widely propagated. And given the
- 22:21fact that they're at these higher
- 22:22frequencies, that's a problem. You know,
- 22:24part of the good thing about 3G was that
- 22:26it could operate on 750 megahertz of
- 22:29bandwidth. And that's the same sort of
- 22:30frequency that TV antenna signals come
- 22:33through to your house. They have to go
- 22:35through the house if you have one of the
- 22:36rabbit ears. And there's a lot of talk
- 22:38about 60 at the moment. I mean the
- 22:40standard hasn't finally been finished
- 22:42and after the the debacle of 5G not
- 22:44really being much better than 4G a bit
- 22:46of a overpromising and undelivering sort
- 22:48of situation and with plenty of places
- 22:50still you know not rolling out 5G
- 22:51networks as big as the 4G networks I
- 22:53mean we have 2G gone in many countries
- 22:55but not all we have 3G gone in Australia
- 22:58but not in other countries and uh 4G and
- 23:015G will be with us for some time yet and
- 23:036G I mean there may be some early
- 23:05announcements in 2028 2029 new early
- 23:08devices that have it But it's going to
- 23:10take several years. It won't be until
- 23:112035 that 6G handsets will be totally
- 23:14commonplace and that people will be
- 23:16using those networks. And we're yet to
- 23:17truly see how AI can help with
- 23:20propagating the signal and ensuring you
- 23:22get a better and stronger signal. So,
- 23:24great news for the telco industry and
- 23:26the phone companies. They'll have
- 23:27something new to sell new equipment to
- 23:28the phone companies, new handsets to us.
- 23:30But at the moment, it's still in the
- 23:32minds of buffins as to how they're
- 23:33really going to make it all happen. And
- 23:34there are plenty of developments from
- 23:36Huawei and Ericson and Nokia and others,
- 23:38but none of them have equipment ready to
- 23:39sell yet. And it's all still in the hype
- 23:42phase.
- 23:42>> That's Alex Sahara from techadvice.life
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