I'm curious how StarLink is handling the mod and certification aspects of this. It's not quite as easy as just slamming an antenna on the roof of an airplane.
I’m guessing that $150k hardware fee is supposed to cover that.
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#372I hate the idea that people might start doing facetime calls on planes. Please no.
Most airlines I've traveled on have stated at the beginning of the flight that video calls aren't allowed, they could always just keep that rule.
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not lessening security.
It's certainly lessening privacy at the very least. Government sanctioned spying in exchange for saving a few minutes.
The information you provide as part of PreCheck is all stuff the US government already likely posesses on you.
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#374Low latency for Video Calls? Sure, great on private charter jets where it’s you or a couple of people who know each other. Also, generally in favour of the march of technology, so I love this. Do Not Ever want on a flight where I’m sitting beside some random ass stranger who will chat or video chat to whoever at the top of their voice while I’m trying to relax.
Most airlines I've traveled on have stated at the beginning of the flight that video calls aren't allowed, they could always just keep that rule.
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#375I'm curious how StarLink is handling the mod and certification aspects of this. It's not quite as easy as just slamming an antenna on the roof of an airplane.
It’s been solved by companies like Gogo and Vianet using Ku, Ka and L band antennas on planes. StarLink will package their antenna in a line replaceable unit (LRU).
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#376"Starlink aviation" you say ? https://starlinkaviation.com/
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#377I'm curious how StarLink is handling the mod and certification aspects of this. It's not quite as easy as just slamming an antenna on the roof of an airplane.
They were already operating StarLink on Gulfstreams back in February with Elon tweeting they expected full FAA approval 6 months later:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1495320076135792644
Hawaiian Airlines seems to be the first airline that will be ready when approval hits: https://newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/releases/hawaiian-airl...
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#378Slightly unrelated but makes me wonder how different would be the airline industry nowadays if Musk had launched a airline company at the same time he launched SpaceX. How different would it be to take a plane and travel across the world.
He does not need to start an airline company, he is going to change the airline industry if fingers crossed we will live to see Starship Earth to Earth happening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0 And what we will be even better a strong competition, so that kind of flights will be available to all.
People believing in this are the same people who believed we'd have flying cars by the year 2000. I can't believe people are falling for such blatant sci fi marketing bullshit
I bet in 30 years we'll still be arguing that "fully autonomous cars are just around the corner" and "Musk will put a colony on Mars in 5 years"
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#379Slightly unrelated but makes me wonder how different would be the airline industry nowadays if Musk had launched a airline company at the same time he launched SpaceX. How different would it be to take a plane and travel across the world.
Elon Musk has a strong vision for environmentally friendly means of transportation, and I don't think that is currently possible with planes.
> environmentally friendly means of transportation
Hate to break it to you but displacing three tonnes of metal and batteries to move your 80kg ass to Walmart isn't environmentally friendly in any way
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#380Once upon a time, all plane transmissions were pretty much air to ground. As inconsequential as it may seem, the positioning of antennas above the plane are a bit metaphoric for flipping things up side down. Looking out into space instead of back to earth. Also notable that SpaceX keeps finding these cool (revenue generating) use cases to further cheapen the cost of sending things up to space. Pretty much dogfooding…
> Also notable that SpaceX keeps finding these cool (revenue generating) use cases to further cheapen the cost of sending things up to space. Like sending Ukraine "free" base stations and charging them $4,500 a month for service.
I mean didn't they re purpose says for the Ukraine costing 10s of millions?