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    Kinda like sending Captain Kirk on a space launch.  Amazing
    marketing! <br>
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      <div dir="auto">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.</div>
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      <div dir="auto">Phin</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:36
            PM Crist Clark <<a href="mailto:cjc%2Bnanog@pumpky.net"
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            <div dir="auto">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?</div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 28, 2022
                  at 4:39 PM Jay Hennigan <<a
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                  2/28/22 16:17, Michael Thomas wrote:<br>
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                  > As a practical matter how does this help? You
                  need to have base <br>
                  > stations/dishes, right? Can they be beefy ones
                  that can pump out <br>
                  > gigabytes that would be capable of backfilling
                  the load? Or would it <br>
                  > need to be multiple in parallel? Wouldn't that
                  bandwidth be constrained <br>
                  > by the number of visible satellites in the
                  constellation? I wonder if <br>
                  > they've ever even tested it with feeding into an
                  internet facing router. <br>
                  > Could tables on the satellites explode?<br>
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                  If there aren't fixed Internet-connected earth
                  stations line-of-sight to <br>
                  the satellite that's serving the remote terminal,
                  Starlink will relay <br>
                  satellite-to-satellite until a path to an
                  Internet-connected earth <br>
                  station is in reach.<br>
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                   From the linked article:<br>
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                  "Musk has previously stressed Starlink’s flexibility
                  of Starlink in <br>
                  providing internet service. In September, Musk talked
                  about how the <br>
                  company would use links between the satellites to
                  create a network that <br>
                  could provide service even in countries that prohibit
                  SpaceX from <br>
                  installing ground infrastructure for distribution.<br>
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                  As for government regulators who want to block
                  Starlink from using that <br>
                  capability, Musk had a simple answer.<br>
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                  “They can shake their fist at the sky,” Musk said."<br>
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                  -- <br>
                  Jay Hennigan - <a href="mailto:jay@west.net"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jay@west.net</a><br>
                  Network Engineering - CCIE #7880<br>
                  503 897-8550 - WB6RDV<br>
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