So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t do business in the country?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:39 PM Jay Hennigan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/28/22 16:17, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > As a practical matter how does this help? You need to have base > > stations/dishes, right? Can they be beefy ones that can pump out > > gigabytes that would be capable of backfilling the load? Or would it > > need to be multiple in parallel? Wouldn't that bandwidth be constrained > > by the number of visible satellites in the constellation? I wonder if > > they've ever even tested it with feeding into an internet facing router. > > Could tables on the satellites explode? > > If there aren't fixed Internet-connected earth stations line-of-sight to > the satellite that's serving the remote terminal, Starlink will relay > satellite-to-satellite until a path to an Internet-connected earth > station is in reach. > > From the linked article: > > "Musk has previously stressed Starlink’s flexibility of Starlink in > providing internet service. In September, Musk talked about how the > company would use links between the satellites to create a network that > could provide service even in countries that prohibit SpaceX from > installing ground infrastructure for distribution. > > As for government regulators who want to block Starlink from using that > capability, Musk had a simple answer. > > “They can shake their fist at the sky,” Musk said." > > -- > Jay Hennigan - [email protected] > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV > >
