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Seems heavily over-hyped. Video I found was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUI4YtG0xY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUI4YtG0xY Which links back to: htt
by themgt 5y ago
Seems heavily over-hyped. Video I found was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUI4YtG0xY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUI4YtG0xY
Which links back to:
https://www.sstl.co.uk/what-we-do/lunar-mission-services https://www.sstl.co.uk/what-we-do/lunar-mission-services
Looks like this is a better article:
https://spacenews.com/esa-awards-study-contracts-for-lunar-communications-and-navigation-systems/ https://spacenews.com/esa-awards-study-contracts-for-lunar-c...
The European Space Agency has issued contracts to two European industry groups to begin concept studies of lunar satellite systems that would provide communications and navigation services.
"to begin concept studies" ... afaict they have no satellite hardware built and no rocket launches booked. The NASA HLS Starship selection really has thrown the entire Artemis program and associated space pork into limbo. If you're landing 100 tons of payload on the Moon on a reusable/rapid launch rocket stack this entire sort of proposal "let's put together a working consortium to study launching one pathfinder lunar comms sat in 2023 and then study perhaps launching up to a handful more undefined years later [at a cost of $100 million per launch]" is just going to become "SpaceX dumped 100 spare Starlinks into lunar orbit as a rideshare on this week's mission, so now we have Moon internet"
- dougmwne 5y agoAnd Starlink Moon edition will have a paltry 2.6 seconds of roundtrip latency to Earth. Mars colonization gets all the hype, but who in their right mind would want to be a 40 minute roundtrip ping from the nearest AWS location?
- oceanswave 5y agoI guess it’s going to be Microsoft landing a datacenter-in-a-shipping-container on Mars before AWS does something similar at the rate that Blue Origin is going.
- dougmwne 5y agoI am legitimately jealous of the engineer that gets to design how that CDN cache operates.
- _Microft 5y agoI will leave the following links here, just for the off-chance that you might find them interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
- azernik 5y agoThe relevant RFCs are also fascinating https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050
- bane 5y agoMaybe Amazon needs to think about a Mars region.
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- m3at 5y agoThe InterPlanetary File System [1] to the rescue! [1] https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/
- edgyquant 5y agoNot really, there is still a minimum of 3 minute latency (at its closest to Earth.)
- inglor_cz 5y agoAs far as paper studies of future tech developments go, we Europeans are the undisputed masters of the genre. Too bad that the actual implementation rarely follows. The can-doers mostly leave our shores with their diplomas still wet. I am not very optimistic about the future of tech here, even though the Common Market is pretty big. And as far as space goes, we are stuck with an obsolete technology which sorta makes sense for 6 launches a year, but cannot manage 60 or 600 launches without bankrupting the ESA. To be fair, the Russians are not much better off. The future of spaceflight will be a China vs. US competition.