Posted on 02/18/2018 4:46:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
On Wednesday, SpaceX’s test satellites won’t be the only thing aboard the rocket.
The primary mission is to deliver a satellite, called PAZ, for the Spanish government.
According to European firm Airbus, which was the primary contractor for PAZ, the satellite will serve “many different applications,” including defense and security.
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High speed internet and satellites don’t belong in the same sentence.
Tell that to the U.S. Military.
They won't be geosynchronous satellites.
I like the red Tesla roadster better.
Trans-pacific on your YACHT..?
Send some email..! Yeah from the middle of the ocean..!
Or do some chat from the top of Everest.
These satellites to make money providing internet for capitalistic reasons, or are they intended to provide internet to the po’, subsidized fully by uncle sugar via free tax money that is totally free and guaranteed?
“SpaceX projected the satellite-internet business would have over 40 million subscribers and bring in more than $30 billion in revenue by 2025,” the Journal reported.
One word: latency.
And then there is latency.
Getting data from a satellite 30,000 miles away and then uplinking it back makes for horrid response times. Banish the thought of online gaming from your thoughts!
This new scheme of low-altitude satellites comes across as much more data, much faster. I imagine the difference of latency compared to standard ground-based fiber optics and wi-fi will be extremely small. Maybe too small for the average person to detect at all.
These are going to be approx 1100 miles up. Plan is to orbit 1000s of them. They are talking about gigabit speeds. Looks interesting.
The latency will indeed be radically negligible.
I would sign up in a second.
Nice country location, but internet is awful. After much searching found a provider who offers microwave internet. Claims 12 MBPS but 6 is what I get on a good day.
Low earth orbit (LEO) solves the latency issues of geosynchronous orbits.
Cost is the only real concern, but if I can get enough data to stream TV, I can cut DirecTV bill and it becomes affordable.
Laser optical links connect satellite-to-satellite for exchange traffic. RF links connect traffic to ground transceiver stations.
How many teleoperator would the projected network support if each satellite has 17 to 23 Gigabit aggregate down-link capability???
This would also work to stabilize totalitarian regimes. Imagine Radio Free Europe with the breadth of the World Wide Web. That is what this could be.
OK, from a libtard website, but they do a good job of explaining the plan to recover the fairing halves with parachutes and a large net.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/20/1742991/-Mr-Steven-the-SpaceX-Fairing-Catcher
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