Starlink Ground Station Map

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Post by addflip » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 11:56 PM UTC

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Post by stirlo » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:08 AM UTC

Those stations in Chile are going to revolutionise comms down there.

I trekked to El Chalten in 2019 and the entire town was connected with a ~150mb microwave link. With thousands of tourists in town it had slowed to a crawl. Starlink won’t do much in cities but for regional areas it will open massive opportunities particularly in tourism with today’s instagramming travellers.

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Post by neals » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:18 AM UTC

If this is going to work from my boat at some point, I'm never setting foot on land ever, again.

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Post by Mengkudulangsat » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:25 AM UTC

Wow.

For a service that should have global reach, these are mostly in the US! I'm a lot more excited about LEO broadband compared to 5G. Sounds like a career change worth pursuing, even if you are halfway around the world.

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Post by chrissnell » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:28 AM UTC

These are some very strange locations. Many of them are way out on country roads, some in places where I’m imagining they had to spent some money to get power service. Check out Panaca, NV, near the Utah border. I’ve been right through here and it’s super desolate. I’ve also been near the one in Evanston, WY and the one outside of Hutchinson, KS. There ain’t nothin’ out there!

What’s the reasoning for these locations? Low RF noise floor maybe? On some major transcon fiber route perhaps?

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Post by chrissnell » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:29 AM UTC

neals wrote: post #3

If this is going to work from my boat at some point, I'm never setting foot on land ever, again.

Until you need to shop for groceries and boat repair supplies, of course.

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Post by snypher » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:33 AM UTC

chrissnell wrote: post #5

These are some very strange locations. Many of them are way out on country roads, some in places where I’m imagining they had to spent some money to get power service. Check out Panaca, NV, near the Utah border. I’ve been right through here and it’s super desolate. I’ve also been near the one in Evanston, WY and the one outside of Hutchinson, KS. There ain’t nothin’ out there! What’s the reasoning for these locations…

There's an ancient map here that shows a dogleg in the NV cable that may run by Panaca.

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cyberge...

There is also an article that shows a few(?) cables in that area

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-detailed-pub...

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Post by sneak » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

Mengkudulangsat wrote: post #4

Wow. For a service that should have global reach, these are mostly in the US! I'm a lot more excited about LEO broadband compared to 5G. Sounds like a career change worth pursuing, even if you are halfway around the world.

There is no direct connectivity between the satellites at this point, so starlink can't be expected to have global reach yet - you go up, and you come down within a certain distance of where you are.

They will need ground stations all over the earth soon.

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Post by sneak » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

snypher wrote: post #7

chrissnell wrote: post #5

These are some very strange locations. Many of them are way out on country roads, some in places where I’m imagining they had to spent some money to get power service. Check out Panaca, NV, near the Utah border. I’ve been right through here and it’s super desolate. I’ve also been near the one in Evanston, WY and the one outside of Hutchinson, KS. There ain’t nothin’ out there! What’s the reasoning for these locations…

There's an ancient map here that shows a dogleg in the NV cable that may run by Panaca. https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cyberge... There is also an article that shows a few(?) cables in that area https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-detailed-pub...

If all you need is power and fiber, and you have to maintain the site indefinitely, it makes sense to go as cheap as possible I guess.

I imagine there are also some minor security benefits from being way out in the middle of nowhere.

I'm super glad for starlink in general as it allows me personally to just need power and water (and a clear view of the sky) and opens up a bunch of extremely cheap land options for viable places to build a house.

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Post by ackbar03 » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 3:38 AM UTC

sneak wrote: post #8

Mengkudulangsat wrote: post #4

Wow. For a service that should have global reach, these are mostly in the US! I'm a lot more excited about LEO broadband compared to 5G. Sounds like a career change worth pursuing, even if you are halfway around the world.

There is no direct connectivity between the satellites at this point, so starlink can't be expected to have global reach yet - you go up, and you come down within a certain distance of where you are. They will need ground stations all over the earth soon.

So currently all the internet for Starlink customers are from bouncing off Starlinks low-orbit satellites to these ground stations where they are connected via cable connected (normal internet) and served up, am I interpreting that correctly?