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I believe the eventual goal is to add satellite-to-satellite links, to permit routing to more remote areas (albeit with increased latency).

• threeseed 6y ago
  Be curious how feasible this is in practice. a) None of the launched satellites will be able to support it. b) ESA Sentinel laser link is only getting bandwidth of between 1.8-7.2 Gbit/s which isn't all that much.
  • Baeocystin 6y ago
    According to this link (short on details, unfortunately) at least a couple of the sats currently in orbit have laser hardware functional enough to test with. I'm looking forward to hearing more about what kind of bandwidth they're expecting. https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-space-lasers-first-orbital-test/ https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-space-lasers-first...
  • m4rtink 6y ago
    For the record the Iridium satellite phone network has been using (radio) inter-satellite links from 1990s.