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They might be usable for airplanes, ships, oil platforms, islands...

• zaphoyd 6y ago
  without interlinks an airplane, ship, oil platform, or island could talk to the starlink sat, but the sat couldn't talk to its ground base station to forward their messages to the rest of the internet. Coverage for deep ocean will require a second generation that can talk sat -> sat.
  • toomuchtodo 6y ago
    There are remote islands with enough fiber to support a ground station. Not a lot, but they exist.
    • shaklee3 6y ago
      Source? Which islands?
      • deleted 6y ago
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