Posted on 08/14/2020 2:26:32 PM PDT by srmanuel
Thanks Mike. we are very rural and signed up to help BETA test when they are ready. Just waiting to hear back with my fingers crossed. :)
Sorry, my mistake. Got in a hurry again.
Thanks srmanuel!
If you live in rural America, 48 down and 17 up are pretty fantastic. I get 16 down and 8 up for wireless at $80/month. Century link dsl was 400kbs at $59/month.
I’ll take this for a decent price any day.
“It is a lot more than internet in the forest.”
Yep, it is faster internet for market traders. That’s the money-maker for Musk.
Jump to 5:00 in this video https://youtu.be/giQ8xEWjnBs
I miss my Japan internet :\
I had fiber optic (installed for free because it was promotional back about 15 years ago), and was only paying roughly $40/mo
What I have now that I am back in the states feels like 14.4k (dialup)
Honestly, those early numbers are amazing for people who have only satellite or microwave from a grain tower.
After Starlink, Amazon is starting up a competing service with FCC approval for several thousand LEO satellites...
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Isn’t this how Skynet got started?
Try running a test at testmy.net and see what you get
*ping*
How well would you appreciate the ability to have observation time available for booking by an enthusiast astronomer, from a space based platform? With enough cameras of modest capability pointed about the heavens, finding a sufficient quorum out of the proposed constellation of 42,000 satellites, pointed toward the desired vantage point, shouldn’t be that difficult. Observations of any object, at any time, regardless of your Earth-time could be accomplished by combining multiple images.
The maximum resolving power of a telescope a bit more than the diameter of the Earth, should be available from combined optics placed in LEO. As the useful ground based optics are typically limited to about 8 inch/20 cm for amateur astronomy due to atmospheric distortion, this would be a step up.
For what it is worth, the satellites are much less visually intrusive once they reach their designated station. For those still using film for capture purposes, there is the problem of tracks appearing from an orbital objects reflection.
A series of CMOS camera captures taken with a low-error tracking system does facilitate image stacking to improve the resolution of observations; and, allow editing out the undesired noise (tracks) at the same time. An iPad Pro could do this image processing task in real-time with a proper dedicated app. There are some working this out now. An illustration of a crude image stacking process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_VOpzQ-rk
Inmarsat vs Starlink Antennas
https://turbofuture.com/industrial/Inmarsat-vs-Starlink-Antennas
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