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SpaceX knows where every dish in the world is (they have realtime data displays showing it). What they don't know is who owns each dish besides what credit card
by mlindner 3y ago
SpaceX knows where every dish in the world is (they have realtime data displays showing it). What they don't know is who owns each dish besides what credit card account is attached to it. Also Ukraine has requested that they not disable service in Russian controlled areas as they want to use them behind enemy lines.
- lxgr 3y agoWhy would they need to? They could just turn it off over countries they don’t have a license to provide service in! This is not an 1980s satellite service with global or regional beams that are too course to provide very coarse-grained, continent-sized service boundaries. As far as I know, the Starlink spot beam size is on the order of a few kilometers in diameter, so anything other than border regions should be very easy to control access to. In fact, not doing so seems to violate the law of most if not all countries covered without a license.
- mlindner 3y agoI think you missed what I was saying. Talking about other countries isn't really relevant here. This is about what's going on within Ukraine. Starlink is not active in Russia, for example.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoWell, they aren't going to aslong as the US, Norway and Tonga are fine with it