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> don't have the ability to geoblock I don’t think anything is stopping them from triangulating if they wanted to, right?
by lakpan 3y ago
> don't have the ability to geoblock
I don’t think anything is stopping them from triangulating if they wanted to, right?
- hoseja 3y agoPhysically impossible if you just have a couple satellites in GEO.
- Thlom 3y agoThere is a GPS in the terminal and I can guarantee the gps data is transmitted to Starlink noc/hub in real time. It's trivial to geoblock terminals.
- hoseja 3y agoIt's also fairly doable to spoof GPS if you care to. And I'm talking about the earlier satellite communicators, not Starlink, which can indeed easily triangulate.
- lb1lf 3y agoProblem with that in context of Starlink is the terminal needs to know its position relative to the satellite to communicate with it; spoof position, and you're likely to lose comms.
- hoseja 3y agoYes. I was not talking about Starlink at all.
- Thlom 3y agoAt least for maritime terminal many of them can use external GPS source, so it is very simple to spoof GPS. However, that would also mean the terminal would connect to the satellite on wrong frequency as it would think it is in a spot beam it is not and as such you would get crappy signal or no signal at all. That said, many geo-satellites spot beams are the size of Ukraine, so it doesn't matter that much if you just need to move your position a kilometer or two.