The issue with starlink is the choice to be in LEO instead of using geosats. It lowers the latency but it makes the whole project completely unsustainable.
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Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 months agoStill doesn’t help ahips
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I suspect they’ll eventually move to a slightly higher orbit, where their satellites can last a decade or so, once the technology is more mature.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ships don’t need infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers launched forever.
Maybe when we have fusion power and don’t have to waste the resources. We don’t. We have to choose what we want to use. I say that launching infinite rockets with infinite cell towers forever is not worth being able to watch tiktok in the middle of the Atlantic.
There’s always actual satellite internet for the needed communications.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They need 12,000 of them, which isn’t a huge amount considering you’re covering the entire globe.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Per year, forever. Hence infinite rockets with infinite cell towers.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The typical lifespan is 5-7 years, so 2400 per year at worst.
You don’t really do math, do you?