Kinda like sending Captain Kirk on a space launch. Amazing marketing!
On 3/1/22 11:41, Phineas Walton wrote:
This is more of a brand image / marketing stunt for Starlink. A pretty
ingenious way to market which will heavily pay off long term. To them,
this is cheap for how much attention it’s getting them.
Phin
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM Crist Clark <cjc+na...@pumpky.net
<mailto:cjc%2bna...@pumpky.net>> wrote:
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 <j...@west.net> 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."
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