The only time I've seen something like that is the hot dogs at a Montreal Canadiens home game.

Oh, that's interesting, each satellite would have around 12 hours above the north, though at that distance, communications would be difficult. I guess with 9 satellites, it'd be something less extreme to maximize dwell and provide good comms.

Could you use balloons in the north like Google's Loon project? It's not that big of an area, but has to be hugely cheaper and simpler than satellites?

When they say Arctic orbit, do they mean polar orbit? IE: North/south over both poles or something else?