starlink cements musk link to wider operation
not simply commercial
as with trump tweet, boring
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Supposedly 2000+ now, "going up to 30000+"
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no pictures online, only muh "artists renditions"?
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340 miles (~2m feet) altitude (geostationary is 22236 miles)
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"573 lbs each"
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using "10-50GHz"
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can move themselves around - this takes a lot of power, in addition to power required for transmission. Surely this is not only solar power? Nuke battery on board?
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"designed to re-enter and burn up after some years"
the Starlink reddit also wonder how they did this….. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/hnqosg/starlink_onboard_batteries/