Comment on US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit

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alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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