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Loon balloons were more like floating cell towers. Starlink is a broadband first platform that will also do some cellular sort of eventually (just beginning to
by asadotzler 2y ago
Loon balloons were more like floating cell towers. Starlink is a broadband first platform that will also do some cellular sort of eventually (just beginning to roll out now).
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoDo the implementation details really matter that much? It's all some sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_platform_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_platform_station , limited by the constraints of available technology and budget for experiments at that time. And not that pioneering (conceptually at least) either, because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic from 199x...
- bryanlarsen 2y agoBoth Starlink and Loon are phased-array based routing setups. Traditional comm satellites are neither of those, they're bent pipes. Cell towers are routed, but not phased array.