Theoretically a Ubiquiti Nanostation was carrier grade and would do
150Mbps. It said so on the datasheet.
Just saying maybe the small, cheap satellite will work exactly as
intended and maybe it'll have a firmware crash during a sunspot and just
become a piece of high velocity garbage. Even a low failure rate over
many years could eventually leave a whole crapload of them buzzing
around up there.
.....I'm sure people smarter than me have thought of all that. Haven't they?
On 6/15/2020 1:26 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
WRT orbiting debris; it's all good until the first "accident". Then we
will see how this all shakes out. If it's bad enough, it could cause
SpaceX (and all its brethren) to relinquish all the orbital space
unless/until they provide a mitigation plan. To some extent they are
structuring their constellation to de-orbit quickly already. Plus
their sats are theoretically designed to de-orbit on their own at end
of life.
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On 6/15/2020 9:48 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
That explains what this whole CHAZ thing is, they wanted first chance
at some space x bandwidth.
Im not a fan of star link, i think its going to cause some major
debris field issues in space for future generations. But nobody can
argue with the fact that it is really cool that a guy like musk
exists who just wants to do some really cool shit, so he does some
really cool shit. Every kid at some point in life said, I wanna go to
mars. Hes just like, yeah, imma go to mars.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:04 PM Robert <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
They are already peering in Seattle, and will only be northern
latitudes for a year according to a "insider" ( there are
hundreds if not thousands of them )....
On 6/14/20 1:16 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
In case anyone was watching SpaceX put up another 58 Starlink
sats on Saturday. That puts them at almost double the number
they claimed to need to enable their "private beta". I'm sure
it's underway, plus they're running some kind of test with the
US military.
All the sats except for the first batch of 60 are of the 1.0
design. Depending on which news blurb you read, these sats all
have to relay directly through ground stations, or they have
some limited ability to go sat-to-sat via an RF link. We may
find out before the end of the year.
They also stated that they c/would start the public beta when
they had ~~ 800 sats in orbit. By my seat-of the pants
estimation, that will be another 4-1/2 launches from now; maybe
another 3 months. Call it September, but who knows.
I think the biggest obstacle at this point is their pizza
box/flying saucer on a stick user terminal. I heard one estimate
that the build cost for it are in the neighborhood of $1200.
I would say by the beginning of 2021, this topic will not longer
be "OT".
If you want to get notification when they can service your area,
go here <https://www.starlink.com/>.
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