Posted on 05/19/2018 7:47:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
There will be an ever increasing demand for bandwidth, as people get more of their video entertainment from the internet. The satellites will also deliver global phone service.
There are, simply put, simpler and cheaper ways to bridge the digital divide.
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No there aren’t. SpaceX will have an incredible cost advantage. They’ll be making everything from the launchers, to the satellites, to the ground stations.
Every one of these accidents have found the driver to be at fault. The teenagers were going over 100 mph on a curvy road with a 25 mph speed limit.
If they are driven the way they are supposed to be driven they are probably safer than a gas car. The first government investigation found Tesla cars equipped with autopilot had 40% fewer accidents.
Satellite Internet sucks due to latency. Nobody who has a reasonable alternative would ever use it. (I do realize there are many folks who do not have a reasonable alternative.)
Musk needs the Global Warming scam to be real, leading to gov. intervention against fossil fuels, and preys on those that believe the Global Warming scam is real.
in that case, guess i’ll have to rush out and git me one of those luxury golf carts.
Why?
Those that live under rocks don’t count and should stay quiet
“My first thought when seeing those twin rocket boosters landing at Cape Canaveral a few months back.”
almost as amazing to me is that the SuperDraco rocket engine combustion chamber is manufactured with 3D printing ...
Yes, IF you are linked to a geosynchronous satellite. Those are a LONG ways up.
If you can communicate through a swarm of close-in low earth orbit satellites, the latency is unnoticeable.
Writer is a pompous douche with a jealousy complex.
Nikola Tesla >> Thomas Edison
“It’s amazing what taxpayer money can accomplish!”
YEA!!!! Just ask Lockheed Martin!
Ask Raytheon!!!
Ask Boeing!!!
admit it....you anti Musk people are just JEALOUS....how very lefist of you.
Geosynchronous are, I believe, 23,000 miles up.
Yea something like that has never in the past hundred years happened to a combustion powered vehicle.
get over your jealousy..
You point would be better taken without the all caps and quadruple exclamation points.
Jealousy is an emotion with no political persuasion.
Ok, thanks for the advice
May the Force (of the Federal Government) be with you!
About a quarter second round trip for a signal to geosynchronous.
That's about 50 times slower than for LEO, assuming the slant distance to the LEO satellite is 500 miles, since it's unlikely it would be directly overhead.
Why would they single out StarLink Internet? Musk is number four to petition, and so far the only American company to obtain approval for an internet constellation of satellites. His competitors sought to block the new arrival gaining the required operating license, through manipulating the FCC and other bureaucratic routes. As is, NASA managed to slip in a mandate of an accelerated deployment and deorbit scheme applicable specifically to SpaceX satellites, so as to increase risks of a fumble.
There are more than a half dozen competitors evaluating this opportunity. When a pack of companies compete for the same target, there is a sound business basis for that move. In the StarLink plan, seventy percent of revenue comes from back-haul and other services, rather than providing direct internet access to subscribers. One third or fewer satellite node hops can manage a link, relative to several dozen fiber node hops around the planet.
As for the threat to complacent internet providers, my ISP sees the writing on the wall, and recently moved to lower rates/deliver more service, as to lock in their customer base before the new competition arrives.
I agree that the economic viability of the Starlink project must be assessed and re-assessed before billions of dollars are spent on it, but critics should not ignore the fundamental advances made by SpaceX, which have resulted in plans for reusable boosters and space planes from other launch providers around the world, which will certainly kick the space race and colonization efforts into a much higher gear.
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