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Does this make starlink any more feasible? I thought that the math just doesn't work out. Not to mention the massive amount of space garbage (40k satellites rep
by kisstheblade 5y ago
Does this make starlink any more feasible? I thought that the math just doesn't work out.
Not to mention the massive amount of space garbage (40k satellites replaced every 5 years?)
See for example a "busted" video https://youtu.be/zaUCDZ9d09Y?t=912 https://youtu.be/zaUCDZ9d09Y?t=912
- yoz-y 5y agoI doubt it. At this price basically the only customers are in rural US and CA. And, by definition, this is not very many people.
- gnabgib 5y agoIt only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 biggest cities are all tbd: - Montreal late 2022 (4.2M people) - Vancouver late 2022 (2.6M people) - Toronto 2022-2023 (6.2M people) - Calgary 2022-2023 (1.6M people) - Edmonton late 2023 (1.4M people)
- yoz-y 5y agoThere is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
- gnabgib 5y agoI didn't say it was? I just used cities (major population centers) to determine what coverage was like (bad) and how much of the country had access (almost none).
- yoz-y 5y agoMy reaction was with regards to the parent’s question, sorry if it came out as flippant. If those are indeed the planned locations for expansion then it’s even worse for Starlink because nobody over there needs it.