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Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
I think Ukraine is using military version of Starlink - Starshield, maybe it does not have issues.
They use both
Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and Elon's politics on a given day. All their drones will be fly by (fiber optic) wire now.
They use Starlink to communicate with each other and for over the horizon drone attacks.
Most drones are the regular wireless FPV. Not 5G/Starlink/Fiber.
Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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True. I'm in rural UK. Blessed with fast fibre. However if the power goes out, it's a proper blackout. I'm slowly sorting out the ups situation along with nut When the power goes out or fibre dies I cannot rely on 4/5G as they die also, so starlink is the only option
For how long and how often does your power go out? Living just across the channel in NL, I don’t know that I’ve ever had my power go out one time in the last 3 years that I’ve lived here.
There was a 60-hour-long power outage in parts of Berlin, Germany, just 5 days ago. However, to be fair, it only affected like a quarter of the city, and it was caused by an intentional attack (arson) rather than a malfunction.
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The whole possibility of it. If you put yourself in a position “one foot from success”, then you will be able to devalue any achievement this way. If you see from the point of “empty universe”, you will see magic everywhere. This is the real magic.
Personally, I think magic and miracle are terrible words to describe astounding technological achievements. The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement. If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning progress to luck or providence.
> The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement.
You basically say that “there are no miracles, this is just an engineered system that we can reason about and study its parts”?
> If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning progress to luck or providence.
Magic is not luck or providence, it is about pure appreciation of something that could have not existed, but here it is in your hands.
Yes, thanks to the effort and creativity of a lot of people, but without the “appreciating like a kid”, only dissecting the thing to “parts” might miss something. That was my point
Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
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I'm pretty sure they know that. Especially as Starlink is brittle mostly because of its (rather disgusting at this point) founder figure and his ramblings. But this is armchair advice: what other options do they have and how do you fund them? (most of Starlink for the Ukrainian army is being paid for by Poland)
>most of Starlink for the Ukrainian army is being paid for by Poland This isn't true either by $amount or number of dishes SATCOM is brittle because physics. Especially outside C band.
> This isn't true either by $amount or number of dishes
"Poland is the largest single contributor, paying approximately $50 million per year through its Digital Affairs Ministry for Starlink services in Ukraine. Poland has provided over 20,000 Starlink terminals and covers the ongoing subscription costs. As of recent reports, Poland has spent nearly 323 million PLN ($84 million) on more than 24,500 Starlink terminals over the past two years." (reuters)
Or, if you'd like somewhat outdated info from Wikipedia: "As of December 2023, Poland remains the largest single contributor of Starlink terminals to Ukraine, providing 19,500 out of 47,000 delivered"
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Out of all countries the UK is pretty blessed regarding rural internet access. Definitely one of the best.... Just not specifically for you.
UK has about 70% fiber coverage. Sweden has 97% network gigabit-capable coverage and we have way lower population density.
Cool for them, probably at the number one spot. compare to Canada, Australia, New Zealand
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
>most of Starlink for the Ukrainian army is being paid for by Poland This isn't true either by $amount or number of dishes SATCOM is brittle because physics. Especially outside C band.
> This isn't true either by $amount or number of dishes "Poland is the largest single contributor, paying approximately $50 million per year through its Digital Affairs Ministry for Starlink services in Ukraine. Poland has provided over 20,000 Starlink terminals and covers the ongoing subscription costs. As of recent reports, Poland has spent nearly 323 million PLN ($84 million) on more than 24,500 Starlink terminals…
There are over 100k dishes in Ukraine. Most are privately purchased.
That number represents the government(s) supplied numbers.
Take a look at this contract.
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0143_970...
Also Poland is definitely paying public retail prices.
The US on the other hand isn't.