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Aside from the fact that I would consider that pretty impressive, it's not at all what they're doing. They're using lasers between the satellites to get the dat

Aside from the fact that I would consider that pretty impressive, it's not at all what they're doing. They're using lasers between the satellites to get the data back to/from the ground.

ncmncm 4y ago
That, of course, requires that they have lasers on all the necessary satellites, a hard hardware problem.
- marcinzm 4y ago
  They've got something like 1200 laser equipped satellites in orbit already with 800 of them already operational (the others aren't in final orbits yet I believe). That's about 45% of all the Starlink satellites in orbit. So I would say it's a solved hardware problem.
ticklemyelmo 4y ago
An alternative approach would be to relay the signal on the surface, perhaps using a fleet of aquatic animals with the same communication system mounted on them. You know, sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
- panick21_ 4y ago
  You could imagine floating ground stations to bounce it between sats, but that would be huge amount capital to cover all the oceans.