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A station in China might be able to bypass the great firewall using this now it is gone? Makes me wonder if there were ever any anonymous clandestine stations o
by aurizon 5y ago
A station in China might be able to bypass the great firewall using this now it is gone?
Makes me wonder if there were ever any anonymous clandestine stations or is that precluded, or does any data draw get fed to reduce latency? Or would Starlink know and preclude their operation?
- JoshTriplett 5y agoFuture versions of this technology are working towards not needing the ground stations, by transmitting satellite-to-satellite. That would (theoretically) make it technically possible to use a dish in a country with no ground stations.
- mike_d 5y agoA station in China would be _behind_ the firewall. If Starlink had a downlink station in China it probably would have been for factory testing. Companies like Iridium and Inmarsat have already played this game and figured out that it is best to just not sell devices in countries that don't want it. Downlink frequencies are well known, and repressive countries tend to jam transmissions they don't like. This negatively impacts users in the same region.