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Re:Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and ... by cyberax on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:18PM (#41768352)
> Depending on how you look at it, Starlink can be incredibly cheap compared to Iridium.

They don't have sat-to-sat communications deployed yet, so they can work only near the ground stations.

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Re:Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and ... by dotnet00 on Monday October 07, 2024 @01:20PM (#41768385)
Hmm? Starlink has had sat-to-sat active for a while now. They've been making a killing selling services to ships and planes lately.
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Re:Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and ... by matrix2003 on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:33PM (#41771823)
The laser interlinks have been turned on.
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Re:Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and ... by nirav72 on Monday October 07, 2024 @10:24PM (#41773254)
They have sat-to-sat now. I was on a cruise ship this past summer that used starlink. I was able to get a consistent 3-5 mbps up/down in the middle of the ocean with nearest land at least several hundred miles away.
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