Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

[nanog08 () mulligan org]

Kinda like sending Captain Kirk on a space launch.  Amazing marketing!

On 3/1/22 11:41, Phineas Walton 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 () pumpky net 
> <mailto:cjc%2Bnanog () 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 () 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 () west net
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