That explains what this whole CHAZ thing is, they wanted first chance at some space x bandwidth.
Im not a fan of star link, i think its going to cause some major debris field issues in space for future generations. But nobody can argue with the fact that it is really cool that a guy like musk exists who just wants to do some really cool shit, so he does some really cool shit. Every kid at some point in life said, I wanna go to mars. Hes just like, yeah, imma go to mars. On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:04 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: > They are already peering in Seattle, and will only be northern latitudes > for a year according to a "insider" ( there are hundreds if not thousands > of them ).... > > > On 6/14/20 1:16 PM, Bill Prince wrote: > > In case anyone was watching SpaceX put up another 58 Starlink sats on > Saturday. That puts them at almost double the number they claimed to need > to enable their "private beta". I'm sure it's underway, plus they're > running some kind of test with the US military. > > All the sats except for the first batch of 60 are of the 1.0 design. > Depending on which news blurb you read, these sats all have to relay > directly through ground stations, or they have some limited ability to go > sat-to-sat via an RF link. We may find out before the end of the year. > > They also stated that they c/would start the public beta when they had ~~ > 800 sats in orbit. By my seat-of the pants estimation, that will be another > 4-1/2 launches from now; maybe another 3 months. Call it September, but who > knows. > > I think the biggest obstacle at this point is their pizza box/flying > saucer on a stick user terminal. I heard one estimate that the build cost > for it are in the neighborhood of $1200. > > I would say by the beginning of 2021, this topic will not longer be "OT". > > If you want to get notification when they can service your area, go here > <https://www.starlink.com/>. > > > -- > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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