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Are you sure? AFAIK the laser links are just needed to further reduce latency. I don’t think SpaceX needs any ground stations. Elon even talked about government
by leobg 5y ago
Are you sure? AFAIK the laser links are just needed to further reduce latency. I don’t think SpaceX needs any ground stations. Elon even talked about governments in countries like Afghanistan not being able to do anything against their citizens using Starlink apart from “shaking their fists at the sky”.
- emteycz 5y agoA ground station is required in the current version of Starlink. Without it, the satellite has no internet connection to offer to clients.
- leobg 5y agoAh. Of course. A ground station within the visibility cone of the individual satellite. You are right!
- cool_dude85 5y agoDamn, Elon was telling a stupid lie? Consider me shocked. Anyway, when's your dancing robot coming? Mine's about to ship.
- Thervicarl 5y ago> I don’t think SpaceX needs any ground stations It is not magic. You signal from the user terminal has to reach a ground station / gateway connected to the Internet. Either there are inter-satellite links and the signal can be routed to a gateway far away. Or there are not and the gateway need to be at most a few hundred kilometers away if you satellites are in orbit at 400km. > Afghanistan not being able to do anything against their citizens using Starlink apart from “shaking their fists at the sky”. Or sentence to death people caught with a Starlink dish on their roof.
- leobg 5y agoYou are right.