Man, I love when sci-fi becomes reality. It's the cool things that get me excited for some parts of the future, and this is exactly that.
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Before I bookmark your comment, any chance for an explanation? I'm very curious.
Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
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Re: Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
#52How about providing free internet to China and Russia, to give the people there proper information without government oversight?
Valid comments here but with the very recent developments on satellite connections direct to mobile phones, how long until you don't need a giant satellite? It may be sooner than we think. Certainly there are other enforcement mechanisms but the trend towards the internet becoming a ubiquitous utility is still making a lot of progress and this is the next paradigm shift.
Re: Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
#53How about providing free internet to China and Russia, to give the people there proper information without government oversight?
It's far more straightforward to use a VPN. And as much as a VPN might or might not stick out depending on it and how it's used, procuring and using a Starling dish would far more.
Incidentally, HN is blocked in China. Am using a VPN.
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#54Man, I love when sci-fi becomes reality. It's the cool things that get me excited for some parts of the future, and this is exactly that.
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Huh? It's in the specs for Starlink satellite version two since the beginning.
You even have research papers detailing the mechanism
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350575864_Laser_Int...
News from last year https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2021/01/25/latest-s...
Re: Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
#55Man, I love when sci-fi becomes reality. It's the cool things that get me excited for some parts of the future, and this is exactly that.
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Let me guess, "Elon is a liar therefore everything SpaceX does or says is a lie"
I bet the satellites and rockets are fake too, right warinukraine? He says they exist, therefore they must not.
Re: Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
#56How about providing free internet to China and Russia, to give the people there proper information without government oversight?
I mean, they kind of are, right? If the Chinese and Russian people came up with their own gear to receive/send compatible signals with the signal, then they could use it. Of course, authorized accounts would probably be problematic. Getting Starlink branded gear to use will also be hard in those countries.
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It looks like it operates at 35,000 km and relays the signal between the base and Australia. The ping time seems to average a hair under 250ms. https://www.satellite-calculations.com/Satellite/170HourList... http://bhs.smokeping.ovh.net/smokeping?target=APAC.AS7474-1 Starlink satellites are mostly in the 550km elevation range. Average pings seem to be in the 50ms range, but this would be single satellite performance.…
> It looks like it operates at 35,000 km and relays the signal between the base and Australia. The ping time seems to average a hair under 250ms. That would be impressive, as that would be 140,000km in 250ms, or about twice the speed of light Most satellite IP I use starts at about 650ms
Yeah that number seemed low, should have done the math. Going by the IPs, the link I posted is the delay between Quebec and the New South Wales ground station that the satellite links to. So it sounds like McMurdo to Quebec would be a 1 second delay on a good day.
Re: Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network
#58According to their coverage map ( https://www.starlink.com/map ) there is no coverage in Africa nor Asia, unless I'm missing something obvious. Or if there are new continents I'm not aware of.
This is availability for purchase map, not coverage.
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Sure, but how do you propose to "blanket" China with Starlink modems?
I'm sure there are plenty of ingenious smugglers in China.
You could, but what difference would it make? You'd only be able to get them to relatively few people, and the "Great Firewall" is already porous enough to let those with sufficient motivation slip through. China doesn't care about that; so long as their firewall still works for most people then it still works for population control.
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#60Does this mean they've figured out satellite-to-satellite data transfer?
I think they have and are at least trialing it? I saw a post on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/StarlinkEngineering/ I think) where someone was showing how they can tell based on satellite positions and latency numbers that they are definitely receiving service even when satellites had no reach to ground stations.