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I'm posting this from my Starlink connection, been working fine here. I'm close to the arctic circle so maybe the polar orbiting satellites are not affected
by almostdigital 1y ago
I'm posting this from my Starlink connection, been working fine here. I'm close to the arctic circle so maybe the polar orbiting satellites are not affected
- munchler 1y agoWhat a great writing prompt! Would love to read read the rest of this as a short story. Any takers? Edit: Wow, that’s the fastest any of my HN posts have ever been buried. Still, as an old guy, I have to say it’s pretty awesome to be living in a future where polar satellites can keep someone in touch with the rest of civilization.
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- guy2345 1y agowhy would there be a rest to this
- gmiller123456 1y agoThey're all the same satellites. It's actually impossible to have a satellite just orbit at the poles.
- almostdigital 1y agohttps://www.starlinkmap.org https://www.starlinkmap.org
- ash_091 1y agoSeems to prove GPs point? There are satellites on a polar orbit, which will cover connections at the poles, but those satellites still cover a lot of non-polar ground. If polar orbiting satellites are still working we'd expect to see intermittent or degraded connectivity away from the poles rather than complete outage?
- almostdigital 1y agoI saw some people report that their dishes are pointing in unusual directions so it would explain that, and that my service is fine since I only use the polar orbiting ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- ncr100 1y agoNot without using a LOT of fuel .. <3