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I wonder how this will affect Iridium in the long term. They target applications that provide critical services with low bandwidth requirements, and a need for
by wcoenen 8y ago
I wonder how this will affect Iridium in the long term. They target applications that provide critical services with low bandwidth requirements, and a need for small lightweight antennas with low power use.
Starlink's design doesn't fit those requirements for now. But I'm not sure whether Starlink will stay out of that market if they will be continuously upgrading their swarm.
On the other hand, it would be strange if SpaceX destroyed Iridium's business model after launching their latest generation satellites for them...
- derekp7 8y agoI could see a market where you put up a Starlink base station, which communicates to regular phones via LTE or WiFi. That could cover the use case of many Iridium deployments, where you are always within range of a camp or vehicle.