Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 times

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Post by deforestgump » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 4:43 AM UTC

Re: Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 times

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Post by gnabgib » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 4:51 AM UTC

(June) In the SCP over the weekend (9 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377278

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Post by namegulf » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 4:51 AM UTC

Wow, we're now entering the era of Giga bit data transfer from space.

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Post by trothamel » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 4:57 AM UTC

For context.

NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth.

The Starlink inter-satellite laser links are 200Gbps space-to-space, and I believe the space-to-earth downlink of each Starlink V2 mini is 96 Gbps.

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Post by paulkrush » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 5:11 AM UTC

Is the next step really is space based data centers?

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