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It will change fast when a non NATO aligned entity attempts to deploy their Starlink.
by fidotron 2y ago
It will change fast when a non NATO aligned entity attempts to deploy their Starlink.
- brookst 2y agoYou mean like Thousand Sails [1]? 1. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/06/china-launches-its-rival-to-elon-musks-starlink-internet-satellites.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/06/china-launches-its-rival...
- tim333 2y agoNot as high tech as Starlink - one geostationary satellite - but twenty years ago I was using Thuraya, a Dubai based satellite service, to communicate from Tibet in a way that was not officially allowed by the Chinese but they couldn't do much about unless they searched my luggage for the phone I guess.
- jki275 2y agoI've used Thuraya in a region of the world not far from there as well. Globalstar, Iridium, Inmarsat were all available at the time as well.
- m4rtink 2y agoChina is deploying one, complete with exploding upper stages shedding debris into long lived orbits. Only strongly worded complaints so far...