Re:Starlink satellites hindering detection of near-Earth ast...
by Thervicarl on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:37AM
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> I don’t think SpaceX needs any ground stations
It is not magic. You signal from the user terminal has to reach a ground station / gateway connected to the Internet. Either there are inter-satellite links and the signal can be routed to a gateway far away. Or there are not and the gateway need to be at most a few hundred kilometers away if you satellites are in orbit at 400km.
> Afghanistan not being able to do anything against their citizens using Starlink apart from “shaking their fists at the sky”.
Or sentence to death people caught with a Starlink dish on their roof.
It is not magic. You signal from the user terminal has to reach a ground station / gateway connected to the Internet. Either there are inter-satellite links and the signal can be routed to a gateway far away. Or there are not and the gateway need to be at most a few hundred kilometers away if you satellites are in orbit at 400km.
> Afghanistan not being able to do anything against their citizens using Starlink apart from “shaking their fists at the sky”.
Or sentence to death people caught with a Starlink dish on their roof.