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Re:'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffl... by toomuchtodo on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:16PM (#23658987)
What would the difficulty level be of incorporating GNSS into SpaceX’s StarLink satellites?
Re:'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffl... by usrusr on Monday June 29, 2020 @07:18AM (#23676465)
All the active station keeping required for small satellites in low orbits makes me wonder how much precision would suffer. Perhaps doable but requiring so much constant self-calibration that quality breaks down in areas without a network of active reference base stations? It's difficult to guesstimate the impact with magnitudes so far outside human scale.
Re:'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffl... by londons_explore on Saturday June 27, 2020 @01:21AM (#23659697)
Low... I wouldn't be super surprised to discover they already have capable hardware onboard. Although ground receivers would need to use different frequency ranges and therefore it would probably be a non-starter.
Re:'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffl... by Havoc on Saturday June 27, 2020 @10:02AM (#23661891)
Good point actually. That could be a nice value add