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Guesses: the hardware isn’t well tested near salt water, and there aren’t many base stations mid-ocean. Plenty of satellite coverage though in the ocean, just n
by labster 4y ago
Guesses: the hardware isn’t well tested near salt water, and there aren’t many base stations mid-ocean. Plenty of satellite coverage though in the ocean, just not too usable without laser beams.
- Scoundreller 4y agoI wish they set up stabilized solar powered buoys that could serve as dumb-pipes between satellites. Maybe the speed would be limited, but I don't think ocean-farers are too picky. Latency should still be better than anything GEO-sat-based. Obstructions should be limited. But this requires overlapping sats in-view.
- panick21_ 4y agoWhy would they do that. They are already deploying laser powered sats and all nee once are.
- Scoundreller 4y agoAssuming inter-sat links work as promised.
- panick21_ 4y agoThey would not be going forward deploying 100s of them. They had a test launch of those a year+ ago with a full batch and now every launch only launches with inter-sat links.
- Scoundreller 4y agoI hope it works as well in production as it did in lab/test mode too. It’s something I do many times a week, but it doesn’t always work out that way.