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0 pointsKiwiJohnno4y ago0 comments

Another huge potential market for Starlink will be internet links to ships at sea, or aircraft. When far from land there would be no ground station in range of the satellites overhead, and laser crosslink is the only way to make this work.

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sliken4y ago

Or skip real time, and allow a store and forward setup for, imagine if you could send/receive a few MB of a few times an hour.

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0 pointsKiwiJohnno4y ago0 comments

Another huge potential market for Starlink will be internet links to ships at sea, or aircraft. When far from land there would be no ground station in range of the satellites overhead, and laser crosslink is the only way to make this work.

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sliken4y ago

Or skip real time, and allow a store and forward setup for, imagine if you could send/receive a few MB of a few times an hour.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse