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Re:Starlink User Terminal Teardown by bbarnett on Friday May 09, 2025 @11:11AM (#43937685)
Yes, but...The skinny is that the end goal is a massive station on the moon, and a single, powerful downlink fron there.

This is facilitated by two things.

First, we at Starlink are on the cusp of forcing light into 'particle only' mode, or PAM. With PAM, as the light is a particle, not a wave, it undergoes perfect time dilation.

Thus, transmit time between the moon and earth is instantaneous!

With this idea moderately solidified, we're preparing an aggressive launch schedule, to get that hardware on site!

Starlink receivers will be able to transmit via PAM too... once we've flushed out the tech.

All it will require is a series of future software updates, so buy your Starlink now!

Re:Starlink User Terminal Teardown by Hikikomori on Friday May 09, 2025 @11:28AM (#43937904)
Yesterdays technology. I'm working on light that ignores matter, just beam through the earth.
Re:Starlink User Terminal Teardown by verzali on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:50AM (#43953449)
Who still uses light? I'm all in on neutrinos baby.
Re:Starlink User Terminal Teardown by Hikikomori on Sunday May 11, 2025 @09:25AM (#43953678)
Too heavy.