Posted on 10/01/2020 7:02:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
This is the first practical field deployment that I've heard about.
Washington Emergency Management who is responding to the wildfires out west has deployed 7 Starlink Terminals remotely to provide internet and communication capabilities to help their response to the fires.
The reviews so far a fantastic.....
You can get decent DSL but the trick is to live near one of the big phone boxes, the size of a shed, that have their own electric service and meter. I didn’t know that when we bought land but got lucky as we have one of those 1/4 mile away. The installer said our signal is as good as his and he lives downtown near the phone company and infrastructure. 15Mbps for $70/mth is our max available service. We went with 10Mbps for $50/mth and can stream TV but not in 4k - 1080p. HD aka 720p is max. I can however watch 1080p youtube videos. All four of us can be doing stuff on our laptops while watching TV. Never tried skype/zoom etc.
The Workers naturally just spring into action and create things like this. There is no need for capitalists like Elon Musk to make it happen.
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PS, you better buy land in the boonies soon. People are buying places up here. They’re not necessarily moving here but buying and building weekend retreats. We’re 80 miles from St Louis. I imagine for a lot of them, it’s a place to go if the sthf. One of them who’s owned a place for over a decade did recently move in. I guess he can work remotely because he moved here in May when the state was somewhat locked down and St Louis was very locked down.
That test launch with a convertible Tesla with a race driver mannequin driver as a payload was a great piece of advertising showmanship.
Musk knows how to tell a good story, that’s for sure!
If Trump was a physicist, instead of developer, he would be Elon Musk.
Robert Heinlein would say about Musk and others ‘What took so frackin’ long?’ Not a criticism of Musk per se, just the mentality of the Nasa and other gov idiots that horribly slowed down and hindered the entire process. While there have been stunning successes (rover mission of a planned 90 days lasting 13,yes, thirteen years!!), other Nasa boondoggles are insane. Nasa purposely demanded more tests and, yes, paperwork from Musk. The Nasa Orion project has spent billions and billions without a single launch, while Musk has revolutionized and reformed rocket launching, introducing reusable rocket. The video of the 2 rockets RETURNING AND LANDING SIMULTANEOUSLY to Florida is one for the ages.
Follow Trump if you want to live...
Man did I have a crush on Linda Hamilton in that first movie..... Lost interest in her with the sequel. Her character became too butch for me. The first movie was the best. .... Now Move It Reese!
Pray for President Trump. Our lives depend on his victory.
1st was the best. I was lucky enough to see it without knowing a thing about it. Part of the way in I thought “damn, this is a good movie”. Totally innovative and new.
StarLink IPO—when??
Someone found a way to use the StarLink LEO satellite constellation for an alternative to current GPS. The operational penalty is only 1 to 1.5 percent degradation to stated StarLink capabilities. Would give non-enhanced GPS accuracy on the ground of 70 centimeters.
The information out suggests Beta Testers receive in excess of 100 mbit sec with sub 35 msec ping time. Ground equipment may be $300 with a fee of $80 month for a subscriber. Four-to-five satellites should be in range at any given time in open unobstructed terrain.
My wife inherited 55 acres. We’re good.
Inmarsat vs Starlink Antennas
https://turbofuture.com/industrial/Inmarsat-vs-Starlink-Antennas
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