Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

Tue Mar 1 20:18:22 UTC 2022

>
> Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and
> they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit
> a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds.
> I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service,
> unfortunately there are geopolitical realities like access to space which
> is likely to be negatively impacted if and when Russia starts shooting down
> these birds.    Fortunately if they start shooting down the birds the
> debris will burn up in a year or so unlike geosync orbit where it would
> stay forever.
>

Russia is not going to be using up it's anti-sat weapons to take down
commercial internet birds. Let's use a little common sense here.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 2:57 PM Scott McGrath <smcgrath at starry.com> wrote:

> Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and
> they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit
> a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds.
> I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service,
> unfortunately there are geopolitical realities like access to space which
> is likely to be negatively impacted if and when Russia starts shooting down
> these birds.    Fortunately if they start shooting down the birds the
> debris will burn up in a year or so unlike geosync orbit where it would
> stay forever.
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 1:44 PM Phineas Walton <phin at phineas.io> wrote:
>
>> This is more of a brand image / marketing stunt for Starlink. A pretty
>> ingenious way to market which will heavily pay off long term. To them, this
>> is cheap for how much attention it’s getting them.
>>
>> Phin
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:36 PM Crist Clark <cjc+nanog at pumpky.net> wrote:
>>
>>> So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for
>>> free somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you
>>> can’t do business in the country?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 4:39 PM Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/28/22 16:17, Michael Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > As a practical matter how does this help? You need to have base
>>>> > stations/dishes, right? Can they be beefy ones that can pump out
>>>> > gigabytes that would be capable of backfilling the load? Or would it
>>>> > need to be multiple in parallel? Wouldn't that bandwidth be
>>>> constrained
>>>> > by the number of visible satellites in the constellation? I wonder if
>>>> > they've ever even tested it with feeding into an internet facing
>>>> router.
>>>> > Could tables on the satellites explode?
>>>>
>>>> If there aren't fixed Internet-connected earth stations line-of-sight
>>>> to
>>>> the satellite that's serving the remote terminal, Starlink will relay
>>>> satellite-to-satellite until a path to an Internet-connected earth
>>>> station is in reach.
>>>>
>>>>  From the linked article:
>>>>
>>>> "Musk has previously stressed Starlink’s flexibility of Starlink in
>>>> providing internet service. In September, Musk talked about how the
>>>> company would use links between the satellites to create a network that
>>>> could provide service even in countries that prohibit SpaceX from
>>>> installing ground infrastructure for distribution.
>>>>
>>>> As for government regulators who want to block Starlink from using that
>>>> capability, Musk had a simple answer.
>>>>
>>>> “They can shake their fist at the sky,” Musk said."
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jay Hennigan - jay at west.net
>>>> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
>>>> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
>>>>
>>>>
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