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I've been a pretty harsh critic of Starlink. I don't think it's going to compete well against terrestrial wireless links, specifically 5G FWA. But if they can actually do something interesting with distributed SAR in a large constellation, that's one of those national security breakthroughs that's worth every penny.
> if they can actually do something interesting with distributed SAR in a large constellation, that's one of those national security breakthroughs that's worth every penny ...could comprehensive SAR over the Earth's oceans uncloak submerged submarines when they're under power?
Radio doesn't penetrate water well, for practical purposes almost at all.