Posted on 09/03/2020 11:10:07 AM PDT by srmanuel
So this morning I watched a webcast of the latest SpaceX Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, some times I can see the rockets from my house....and I'm well over 100 miles away.....
It's pretty cool to watch in less than 20 minutes you get to see the launch, first stage separation, the landing of the first stage booster on the barge at sea and then the release of the 60 satellites....
Two more launches are scheduled by late September or early October, which will put them over 800 satellites in orbit....
I would be happy with 100mb download speed and sub 30ms latency...
The real exciting thing is the space laser communication between satellites without a ground base station will dramatically add to the throughput of the network....plus we are very early in the network's rollout....
As more satellites get deployed, and as they deploy the ones with inter-satellite communication, things will get better.
A 2 floppy disk computer (the salesman said I'd never need any more memory) and a 1200 baud modem. 1990 I believe. y first color Dell laptop around $2,000, had a 100 meg hard drive :)
It will allow more spread out community clustering with more work from home options.(Like an old CBS “21st Century” special I saw as a kid in the late 60’s that talked about what life would be like 50 years into the future. It is here now.)
That is fast for a Satellite.
Elon Musk said once it goes live then it will be at gigabit speeds. Which is extremely fast.
Most people are on Megabit speed with their local exchang carrier or cable tv proider.
“768k T1 lines used to sell for > $1500/month”
That would be 1.544mbs T-1 lines.
And cross country it would cost over $10k per month.
Will this improve the speed on my VIC-20?
Hey now...
I started with Morse Code and 75 baud teletype.
I finished by joining Intel and and a $17bil acquisition’s (Altera) networks...after joining Rocketdyne to Aerojet.
That’s covering a LOT of ground.
Very few of us have had the interesting pleasure.
Indeed.
In 1986 I was in the USAF, stationed in Japan. My workplace had a direct cable teletype link with PacAF, in Hawaii. It ran at 50 baud.
Every few weeks we would have to use it to talk with PacAF when our ancient Univac-based communications equipment would have a failure. I could easily type faster than that teletype link.
Who is behind this? When will it be available to us mortals? Will it be better than the current competition? How much might it cost us? When can I tell my current provider to pound sand?
Is SpaceX contracting with our new Space Force to launch innovative weapons systems in orbit? Just realized you probably wouldn’t know since such systems would be Top Secret.
I wonder when SpaceX will start providing orbit rides for the rich? Also, Musk has his sites on manned space flights to Mars. Wonder when and hope I live to see that.
You could by a fractional T1 circuit, you could start out with 64kb and add channels as needed all on the same circuit...the change was a 1 line code change in the router, I use to do this all day at a Cisco TAC...so 768k was absolutely doable...
Basically a T1 was 24 channels of 64kb each....
In Europe it was a E1 circuit that had 31 channels of 64kb each..
*ping*
115, over wifi, Spectrum
The company is called Starlink, the satellites are being launched on rockets by SpaceX both are Elon Musk companies.
They are beta testing this service right now.
The have a website, starlink.com where you can sign up to be a beta tester, the current projected area for beta testing is the upper tier of the USA and lower tier of Canada, I forget the longitude or latitude
The price I hear is $70-80/month
I would think by the middle of next year the public in some places will be on it, especially if they keep up their current launch pace...at least one launch per month each with 60 satellites...
SpaceX is working on a heavy lift launch vehicle that will greatly increase the pace and be capable of launching hundreds of satellites at one time...
yes from what I hear
My First: Kit with peg board, wire, tiny light bulbs - up the street the Electronic Computer Project punch cards? and switches and took an entire floor - no ram or hard drive involved - and was going full blast into the future.
Thank You very much.
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