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 <
jay@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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