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While general purpose satellite internet is nice, I'm wondering (in brainstorm mode) about whether there are alternative situations for which an architecture ba
by sriku 7y ago
While general purpose satellite internet is nice, I'm wondering (in brainstorm mode) about whether there are alternative situations for which an architecture based on such fast moving satellites would be desirable rather than a challenge.
Below are some unfiltered thoughts on this -
1. Treat satellites like postboxes. If ground to satellite link is fast, use it to upload TB of data to these satellites and let them transport it across oceans and dump them at destinations (article notes it takes 6mins to cross the Atlantic).
2. Serve applications off satellites - sort of like CDN edge servers. Thinking Cloudflare Workers. No idea what their capacities are though.
3. Distribute updates to devices or end points. Tesla updates?
4. Make the satellites pick up and drop data between specific ground stations.
Any intelligent ways to abuse this system?