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Re:Realtime Starlink Satellite Map by bryanlarsen on Thursday June 18, 2020 @10:51AM (#23563596)
Good thing then that SpaceX has enough ground stations that no hops are required in the continental US.
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Re:Realtime Starlink Satellite Map by shaklee3 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @10:56AM (#23563642)
I'm referring to the satellite to gateway hops. There absolutely are many of those just to cross the continental US. The satellite altitude is such that it only covers a small part of CONUS before it has to have off to another satellite.
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Re:Realtime Starlink Satellite Map by bryanlarsen on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:43AM (#23564137)
Why would they use satellite hops for those? They'll just put your packet onto an internet backbone fiber. Starlink is last mile service, not backbone.
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