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Leaving aside the corruption thing there could be a lot to be said for satellite coms for aircraft and air traffic control as air traffic is global and the only
by tim333 2y ago
Leaving aside the corruption thing there could be a lot to be said for satellite coms for aircraft and air traffic control as air traffic is global and the only way to have a system that will work anywhere including over oceans is satellite really.
- rbanffy 2y agoSo, standards and multiple independent implementations operated by multiple service providers.
- ghthor 2y agoAs someone who dabbled as a user of satelite internet before spacex, nobody else can do it. It sucked
- rbanffy 2y agoSpaceX changed the rules of the game - before SpaceX we all used stationary satellites, needed to point antennas to them, deal with atrocious latencies and low bandwidths. The enabling technology is constellations in low orbit and SpaceX isn't the only one anymore.