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Re: Starlink routing


From: Raymond Burkholder <ray () oneunified net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:30:02 -0700



On 1/22/23 21:54, Tom Beecher wrote:
Yes re: Iridium. Contrary to what the Chief Huckster may say, inter-sat comms are not some revolutionary thing that he invented.

It’s also not likely to function anything like they show in marketing promos, with data magically zipping around the constellation between nodes in different inclinations. Unless they have managed to solve for the Doppler effect in a way nobody has thought of yet.


I know of a group of satellite FPGA/RF guys who have worked on this doppler thingy. It is a solved problem.


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