with a ~500km altitude, they deorbit naturally after ~10years from drag.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:36 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Theoretically a Ubiquiti Nanostation was carrier grade and would do
> 150Mbps. It said so on the datasheet.
>
> Just saying maybe the small, cheap satellite will work exactly as intended
> and maybe it'll have a firmware crash during a sunspot and just become a
> piece of high velocity garbage. Even a low failure rate over many years
> could eventually leave a whole crapload of them buzzing around up there.
>
> .....I'm sure people smarter than me have thought of all that. Haven't
> they?
>
>
> On 6/15/2020 1:26 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
>
> WRT orbiting debris; it's all good until the first "accident". Then we
> will see how this all shakes out. If it's bad enough, it could cause SpaceX
> (and all its brethren) to relinquish all the orbital space unless/until
> they provide a mitigation plan. To some extent they are structuring their
> constellation to de-orbit quickly already. Plus their sats are
> theoretically designed to de-orbit on their own at end of life.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
> On 6/15/2020 9:48 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
> 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/>.
>>
>>
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