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SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks

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Post by m463 »

rjzzleep wrote: post #113
alextheparrot wrote: post #46

My mother was raving about the service the other day. Speeds are 10-15x faster, she’s having an easier time with her online community college course and her job KPI is up by double digit percents [1]. She was worried that IT wouldn’t be OK with it when I said it was satellite (They’d been burned too many times), but the IT guy was incredibly excited because he’s also waiting to get Starlink. Looking forward to the se…

Faster than? Also, does anyone know who's behind this effort? Other leaders would celebrate the people behind the development but at spacex and tesla it's only ever news about Musk? Any interesting people behind what is happening at SpaceX ?

It appears to be faster than rural Wisconsin internet service.

someone I know (coincidentally in wisconsin) is getting 100m down 20m up

There's always (the other) Linus: https://youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA

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Post by TeeMassive »

Magodo wrote: post #4

I'm keen to see Starlink deals with government censorship requests. Can a country even effectively enforce their requests? How will China enforce the Great Firewall for instance?

ADV China did a video segment about this. It's already illegal in China to get satellite dishes, they really are afraid of their citizens knowing what's really going on.

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Post by parsimo2010 »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #37
joezydeco wrote: post #15

So where is Amazon in relation to all of this? I got pinged by a recruiter from Kuiper the other week and all I can see is that there's no way they're on track to be working in 5 years. They don't even have a stable launch platform. Would Musk sell Bezos the ride?

Bezos is in it only because he too has a rocket company. If he wanted to be in the business of feeding on the scraps of others he'd release his own terrestrial internet service.

AWS has also created satellite ground stations in the last few years. A commercial satellite internet service running from the ground stations would probably justify scaling out, and having a larger network of ground stations would help AWS attract more commercial space customers. Bezos has been working this from a few angles, not just from a keep up with Musk attitude.

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Post by bombcar »

immmmmm wrote: post #51
jonplackett wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, they had to apply for a license to do it, and it was granted.

by whom? the FCC. i live in switzerland, does USA own LEO?

Effectively? Yes. Not in a “we can prevent anything we want” but a “we can do whatever we want” way.

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Post by wffurr »

dillondoyle wrote: post #77
rklaehn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any major space power (Russia, China, India) will be able to dictate the conditions of Starlink operations. Basically: dear SpaceX, please switch off your sats over our territory, or we will do it for you.

talk about space debris - blowing up that many satellites would be insane.

They are low enough that any debris will deorbit shortly.

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Post by m463 »

marcusverus wrote: post #117
rklaehn wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think SpaceX would sell them launches. First of all, why wouldn't they? They are confident that their satellite tech is superior. And second, SpaceX is dominating the commercial launch market to such a degree that they would run into antitrust issues if they were to use their launch dominance for antocompetitive behaviour. But Bezos would probably be too proud to launch on SpaceX...

Musk's stated goal for Space X is to colonize Mars. His stated goal for Starlink is to fund said colonization. I 'm not so sure that he would enable any competition that he saw as having the potential to pose a real threat to his ultimate goal.

You know, I have to wonder though.

I've been ok with the tesla-only superchargers, because they are good. But it is a self-serving infrastructure and a competitive advantage.

I wonder what the reality would be about sending up bezos's satellites? It could also be a PR problem, PLUS it would undermine the bezos employees working on their launch platform.

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Post by hackeraccount »

philistine wrote: post #114
MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bezos is in it only because he too has a rocket company. If he wanted to be in the business of feeding on the scraps of others he'd release his own terrestrial internet service.

Webservers... in space!

Given that Starlink will do links between satellites that's actually an interesting idea. From what I've read one of the problems with it is heat management. Space is chilly but it's not a great heat sink and servers generate a lot of heat.

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Post by aero-glide2 »

rjzzleep wrote: post #113
alextheparrot wrote: post #46

My mother was raving about the service the other day. Speeds are 10-15x faster, she’s having an easier time with her online community college course and her job KPI is up by double digit percents [1]. She was worried that IT wouldn’t be OK with it when I said it was satellite (They’d been burned too many times), but the IT guy was incredibly excited because he’s also waiting to get Starlink. Looking forward to the se…

Faster than? Also, does anyone know who's behind this effort? Other leaders would celebrate the people behind the development but at spacex and tesla it's only ever news about Musk? Any interesting people behind what is happening at SpaceX ?

Couldn't find names but the employees did an AMA on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the...
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