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> Elon should work Elon? You mean the team behind starlink? The cult of personality around this nerd is amazing

• sysguest 10mo ago
  hmm so who should I refer to? should I call out bill gates? zuckerberg?
  • amenhotep 10mo ago
    Just say Starlink or SpaceX, obviously. When would you ever say "Bill should work on fixing Outlook" or "Mark should improve the WhatsApp gif picker"??
    • anothereng 10mo ago
      gif picker lol
• johnisgood 10mo ago
  Umm, executive prioritization genuinely determines what gets built. "Design for LPI/LPD" is exactly the kind of strategic call that comes from leadership, not something engineers spontaneously add to the roadmap. That said, the technical problem is hard regardless. Direction-finding equipment can locate them. Moving helps but you are broadcasting position whenever active. Military SATCOM (MUOS, AEHF) uses frequency hopping, directional antennas, burst transmissions, techniques Starlink was not architected for. The mesh idea has a bandwidth mismatch problem too. BLE tops out around 1 Mbps; Starlink pushes 100+. You would want 802.11s or a MANET protocol, but then you just have a cluster of RF emitters pointing back at the terminal anyway.
  • sysguest 10mo ago
    agreed on tech side, I'm not wireless-guy, so I'm giving ble as an example ('something like ble') not as some prescription btw, maybe elon could add those SATCOM features to starlink? (or is it physically costly -- eg. require changing those satelite hardwares? or would some software update do?)
• Rover222 10mo ago
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