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For pure comedic value: Someone deployed a K8s cluster on hubble and now its lost DNS because the master nodes connected to a starlink satellite

dylan604 5y ago
More likely they got it to run Doom.
- optimalsolver 5y ago
  https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
- desktopninja 5y ago
  Hehe: https://opensource.com/article/21/6/kube-doom https://opensource.com/article/21/6/kube-doom
Koshkin 5y ago
This is good: Starlink or such would be probably an ideal way to connect a space telescope (or any spacecraft) to the internet.
- Denvercoder9 5y ago
  Actually, it wouldn't be. Starlink orbits at about the same altitude, but the satellites have their radio antenna pointed downwards to Earth, so they can't connect with each other.
  - beerandt 5y ago
    Starlink has lateral uplink/downlink lasers, but yes that would be a complicated solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
    - NortySpock 5y ago
      Last I heard laser links were in testing, and was currently only being used for communicating in the same orbit (a single, linear string of satellites all orbiting in the same plane and at the same altitude)
- nonameiguess 5y ago
  They actually use the NRO's Quasar relay satellites for this. They don't connect to the "internet," but rather to NRO mission ground stations, but they need that single point of ingress to Earth anyway because the hardware decryption modules, algorithms, and key-loading mechanisms only exist in military comms equipment, not IP routers. From there, provided the data itself is unclassified or can be downgraded, it can get to the Internet. It's arguably an interesting question whether the government would consider using commercial relay satellites instead of just the Quasar constellation, though. The data stream doesn't need to be decrypted on the satellite, just forwarded. Obviously, you can't prevent radio from being intercepted, so throwing in a hop you don't own doesn't actually add any risk. You're totally reliant on the strength of your encryption either way.

dylan604 5y ago

More likely they got it to run Doom.

optimalsolver 5y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
desktopninja 5y ago
Hehe: https://opensource.com/article/21/6/kube-doom https://opensource.com/article/21/6/kube-doom

Koshkin 5y ago

This is good: Starlink or such would be probably an ideal way to connect a space telescope (or any spacecraft) to the internet.

Denvercoder9 5y ago
Actually, it wouldn't be. Starlink orbits at about the same altitude, but the satellites have their radio antenna pointed downwards to Earth, so they can't connect with each other.
- beerandt 5y ago
  Starlink has lateral uplink/downlink lasers, but yes that would be a complicated solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
  - NortySpock 5y ago
    Last I heard laser links were in testing, and was currently only being used for communicating in the same orbit (a single, linear string of satellites all orbiting in the same plane and at the same altitude)
nonameiguess 5y ago
They actually use the NRO's Quasar relay satellites for this. They don't connect to the "internet," but rather to NRO mission ground stations, but they need that single point of ingress to Earth anyway because the hardware decryption modules, algorithms, and key-loading mechanisms only exist in military comms equipment, not IP routers. From there, provided the data itself is unclassified or can be downgraded, it can get to the Internet. It's arguably an interesting question whether the government would consider using commercial relay satellites instead of just the Quasar constellation, though. The data stream doesn't need to be decrypted on the satellite, just forwarded. Obviously, you can't prevent radio from being intercepted, so throwing in a hop you don't own doesn't actually add any risk. You're totally reliant on the strength of your encryption either way.