Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 6 months agoA geosynchronous satellite makes much more sense for those use cases.
Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 6 months agoA geosynchronous satellite makes much more sense for those use cases.
br3d@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Those are much much higher up, which introduces a lot of signal latency. The Starlink types are low down, which makes the Comms faster (and also means they keep burning up in the atmosphere)
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yeah, but the cost of low latency is thousands of satellites that burn up in the atmosphere, need to be continuously launched, are a catastrophe for optical and radio astronomy and crowd LEO, reducing available space and increasing collision risk. All for a barely scalable system.
It’s not worth it. If you want low latency get a cable run or talk to a ground based antenna.