All too often, interesting technological advances are shrouded in excessive hyperbole that blunts their impact. This applies to the recent announcement of a Bluetooth connection being established between a satellite and standard devices on the ground. Technical journals and analysts have been breathless and unquestioning in their celebration of this as a breakthrough that solves at a stroke the problem of global IoT connectivity. This is not to denigrate the significant advance that has been here by Seattle-based startup Hubble Network, after two of its satellites were launched on March 4th by SpaceX’s Transporter-10 ride-sharing mission. The company claimed it had achieved what seemed impossible, by extending a short-range radio protocol into space over 600 km. We should remember though…