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Re:Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled by raverbashing on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:56AM (#43288429)
I think matching in coverage, not necessarily matching in the same LEO scheme as Starlink
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Re:Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled by _fizz_buzz_ on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:13AM (#43288511)
Eutelsat's oneweb subsidary currently has something over 500 satellites in LEO orbit. I think starlink has over 7000. I don't know much about all of this, but I assume if it just about covering ukraine they won't have to match the 7000 starlink satellites. The whole situation might open a opportunity for oneweb to catch up with starlink.
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Re:Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled by friseurtermin on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:07AM (#43288476)
The article phrases this weirdly, but they are talking about the 40,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine that Eutelsat is trying to match, not about LEO satellites.
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Re:Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled by ninalanyon on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:19AM (#43288545)
The number refers to the ground terminals not satellites.
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Re:Shares of Starlink's European rival Eutelsat have tripled by mlindner on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:02AM (#43288834)
Eutelsat already has global coverage. So coverage is also the wrong word to use.
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