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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by gomox on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:40PM (#26393193)
Weather routing is already prevalent over existing satphone connections. The GFS model that is typically used for this purpose has low enough resolution that there's marginal returns to additional bandwidth or reduced latency.
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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by guywhocodes on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:02PM (#26393936)
You can interpolate the GFS very accurately in terms of wind over land and close to land with WRF-ARW. There is highish resolution land use data and good elevation models. This is something you can do on your laptop even these days.

However I have no idea of good it is at wave and currents.

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Re:SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes by repsilat on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:02PM (#26394507)
You can also put the compute and the data on land, and do routing as a service. The decision bandwidth (i.e., ideal heading/route) is miniscule.
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