Samsung Research America has laid out its vision using of low-earth-orbit (LEO) micro-satellites to provide connectivity to internet users around the world. It’s an idea that will be familiar to most thanks to Google’s Project Loon, as well as Facebook’s ongoing Aquila solar-powered UAV initiative, but differs in that it plans to make use of proposed 5G millimeter wave spectrum that would be common to satellite, WiFi and cellular. So while this won’t do much to dispel the ongoing criticism that Samsung likes to copy its rivals, the whitepaper from Samsung’s research arm is worth examining. While only a vision of the future ambition, Samsung’s impetus behind such a project would be providing guaranteed connectivity to the millions of devices…