Ukraine’s Vice PM Asks Elon Musk to Deliver Starlink Internet, Musk Gets It Going in 10 Hours
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The starlink satellites are small and don’t have very large coverage area or bandwidth. Elon says that he would need to launch 42,000 satellites for full global coverage. He’s launched 1970 so far since 2019. The satellites have a five year life expectancy. In order to keep up with that, he would need to launch 8400 new satellites every year to replace the old ones. He is able to launch 50 per launch. He would need to do a launch every other day. Every year.
That may be true, but this speed test looks quite good. Sorry for the plebbit link. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/t2iwfu/starlink_is_the_best_just_took_this_while_playing/
What app or device in the world, other than in the gov't, requires a "230g" update? I'm assuming they meant 230 GB?
I would understand the app/program itself is 230 GB but an UPDATE?!
https://www.aroged.com/2021/10/06/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-season-6-update-weighs-230gb-on-xbox-series-x/
And the satellite just stays up there when they’re out of commission? More space trash?
Well they are in a very low earth orbit so they would most likely crash down to earth. I think that is the reason for both the 5 year lifespan as well as the need for 42,000 satellites instead of 3 like other telcom companies use.
How do they make sure none of these satellites hit us? 42000 sounds like a lot…should be at least a few floating over bigger cities.
I imagine they would fall under maritime salvage laws.