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Out of curiosity, is there anything technical the Spanish authorities could do to block Starlink (i.e jamming)? Or are legal/bureaucratic measures the only solu
by spacebanana7 2y ago
Out of curiosity, is there anything technical the Spanish authorities could do to block Starlink (i.e jamming)? Or are legal/bureaucratic measures the only solution?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThey can roll up to the starlink ground station and turn of the power or cut the cords. Edit" it looks like the inter-satellite capacity might be able to handle more than I thought https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f501 https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...
- hinkley 2y agoI believe I recall them bragging about increases to horizontal bandwidth in the later designs. You may be thinking of the original network?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoIIRC, Originally they had none
- entropyneur 2y agoHopefully not something that can happen in Spain, but in authoritarian countries they simply arrest or otherwise penalize the end users.
- bombcar 2y agoThere are countries where starlink isn’t available. But if you get one from a nearby country and keep quiet it works. Spain isn’t large enough, I suspect. But they can lean on starlink as long as they’re sold there.
- itishappy 2y agoStarlink terminals are jammable, but the jamming source will need to be in it's FOV and it uses quite a focused beam. Not particularly viable for an entire nation. The ground stations would be a lot more vulnerable, but cutting the cable would be a lot easier than flying a Ku/Ka band jammer overhead.