Britain bought a company that went bankrupt in the midst of launching a smaller constellation of about 1,300 LEO satellites. Britain was severed from participation of the European version of GPS known as Galileo, due to the Brexit vote. As this is not a completely new concept, perhaps this is their compensating move.
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Some sources state that a StarLink satellite runs algorithms which provides for self-knowledge of position to centimeter accuracy. This could confer an operational advantage, considering that a laser interlink is intended for node-to-node bucket brigade style relay of coms traffic about the globe—pointing accuracy. Reduced chance of intercept.
Starlink is a drone pilots dream system. Gigabits of laser linked low latency data. All with pencil phased array steered beams in both directions. Starlink will allow the worldwide real time control and ISR data backbone for tens of thousands of drones simultaneously. The Air Force has twice now down real time testing while airborne. They saw 600+ mbps speeds and sub 30ms latency starlink is a total game changer. They also used it in an F35 just recently in what they termed as high dynamic flight, people should read that as supersonic while maneuvering at high Gs as is to be expected in combat.