Hi David, Mike said each satellite has 3 ISL, two connecting to the satellites in front and back in the same orbital plane, then a third one that can point anywhere (almost):
https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/2022-September/001000.html?fbclid=IwAR0TaPTdxVEp5iVWxch91mjnDT7aKVaOXPmyOd93PBING29YBWy9SNbV278 Regards, David > Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:41:16 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Lang <[email protected]> > To: Alexandre Petrescu <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > I believe that I read that STarlink has 5 lasers per sat. but whatever the > number, it's a tiny number compared to the number of satellites that they > have > up there. > > As you are looking at 'trains', check their altitude. They aren't going to > shuffle sats around much, it's expensive in terms of fuel and they are only > allowed to provide service when they are in their proper orbits. > > We know the lasers are in operation as they are providing service to places > more > than one sat hop away from ground stations. We also know they have a lot of > ground stations around to share the load. > > We have almost no details on the specific modules they are using, and none > on > what routing they are using. > > David Lang _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
