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0 pointsbuboard7y ago0 comments

not easy inside a faraday cage. In fact, how does spaceX plan to deliver the internet? Would people need access to a roof antenna? That rules out a lot of use cases

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jacquesm7y ago

What is the last time you traveled on an airplane? In flight wifi is pretty routine now, aircraft have lots of infrastructure to enable this. It would definitely be possible to adapt that hardware to connect to the satellite system launched by SpaceX instead, all it would take is a different antenna and radio system that the Sat operator would be happy to provide.

buboardOP7y ago

I thought you meant some kind of direct passenger connection. I think airplanes already use satellites for the internet connection, no? In any case , i dont see the huge benefit here: they will still all be sharing the same routers and probably have the same connection speed.

jacquesm7y ago

The amount of bandwidth available to a single aircraft would be much larger than it is today with this system.

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buboardOP7y ago

jacquesm7y ago

The amount of bandwidth available to a single aircraft would be much larger than it is today with this system.

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