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I am a member of the Ardingly Solar Team, a group of students designing and building a solar powered car to race in Australia in the world solar car challenge. I have designed a system that collects all data from the cars BMS and motor controllers and broadcasts it using RF radio signals to a service car at the back but now we would also like to be able to send this data on to a website to be displayed. the problem is WiFi is not really an option as the race is through the Australian outback and GSM is not going to work either as the signal does not reach that far into the outback, so the question is has anyone ever tried using satellite to transfer data or is that too much and there is a simpler way of doing this? We need the data in real time so collecting it at the end is also not an option.

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If it's just 8 bytes every 30mins then one of the short message services will probably be good enough (no need for a full on IP connection). e.g. Rock7 RockBLOCK.

Also see this answer for rough pricing details

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