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Re:Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Ha... by tw_wankette on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:36PM (#43834880)
Starlink now has many laser crosslinks and no longer requires a base station to be in its line of sight.
Re:Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Ha... by pavluha on Saturday May 03, 2025 @01:23PM (#43880582)
But Starlink needs to get the traffic to/from the ground eventually, right? And those ground links having their capacity. So I think it is nice to have laser crosslinks, but they will not eliminate the base stations capacity requirements.