How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality

Re:How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality by walrus01 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:15PM (#25216515)

starlink doesn't, yet, all of the satellites so far are bent pipes. They're working on it however. It may not end up using lasers, but something in the E band RF for intersatellite links.

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Re:How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality by zaroth on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:40PM (#25216607)

They have a couple birds up there with lasers. As I understand it, the unit price for the necessary actuators is too high right now to deploy thousands of them.

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Re:How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality by richk449 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:56PM (#25216673)

Got links to any info about space-x using e-band inter-satellite links? I hadn’t heard that before.

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Re:How once-elusive laser weapons suddenly became a reality by walrus01 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:44PM (#25224638)

there's fcc filings where they reference V and E band.

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