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Immediately (2-3 Days) after the massive flash-floods in Germany in 2021, Starlink Dishes started appearing in the Ahr Valley community spaces where the Red Cro
by exar0815 3y ago
Immediately (2-3 Days) after the massive flash-floods in Germany in 2021, Starlink Dishes started appearing in the Ahr Valley community spaces where the Red Cross and the Bundeswehr were providing relief material. There the victims could communicate because no mobile reception was available anywhere.
I still don't know how that was possible when Starlink wasn't even really available at that moment.
Source: I saw them myself while eating during breaks.
- dotnet00 3y agoCould have just been a beta testing arrangement, there were a couple of cases of disaster hit countries arranging with SpaceX back then to have any high bandwidth communications at all, even if not necessarily as reliable as more mature iterations.