Color me not impressed if Musk can only communicate with ground stations...
Isaacman cut a deal with Netflix for a mini-doc and the last episode airs on September 30th which will have lots of footage taken during the mission.
Huh?
Musk was not on the Dragon capsule.
You “no grok” antennas nor em radiation, do ya? Inter-satellite coms are slated to be at extremely high frequencies which water vapor in earths stop dead in feet but work fine up there with massive bandwidth. The ground coms antennas on those sats are focused down like magnifying glasses on our ant colony and are laser focused. Virtually no side lobes and forget about signal going up. The sats are in a very low orbit, almost at the edge of the atmosphere by design so that latency is handled because believe it or not, the speed of light is slow. (See the previous sats in high orbit with 120ms latencies) The crew was way way way out in a very high orbit past the space stations high orbit. The problem wasnt at the orbiters end. There just are not that many ground stations.