Agency says SpaceX craft could hinder International Space Station
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What is the actual technical reasoning? These all have active tracking, I can’t imagine it ever being an issue for missions (compared to defunct Soviet satellites with no tracking, like Kosmos 2221 and Kosmos 1408).

It’d be cool if Starlink could also be used to replace some base stations, although I guess the huge power requirements are an issue there.

It’s a shame to see technology held back due to political interference like this though. Hopefully China will achieve it instead. Imagine how much this can help the developing world - like high-speed internet for Cuba (if the USA doesn’t block it) and rural Nicaragua, etc.

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“The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week, the FCC wrote: “SpaceX may not deploy any satellites designed for operational altitudes below the International Space Station,” whose orbit can range as low as 370 kilometers. Starlink currently has nearly 6000 satellites orbiting at around 550 kilometers”

Fun fact: Tiāngōng, the Chinese Space Station currently in orbit, operates as high as 450km up (its currently at 360km). So its even closer to the Starlink constellation that the ISS is.

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Ok FCC, then how do you plan on getting internet to me? Choppy terrestrial with 20% packet loss wasn’t working, Verizon lte with 2mbps upload wasn’t working, hughesnet…do we need to even mention it? Verizon dsl with 1.5/.25 isn’t even internet.

So please tell me how you’re going to do something about it other than deny me solutions? Starlink has been the best thing to happen to rural US in a long time.

If you want low latency go to urban areas. Otherwise accept medium latencies and stop to scream at the sky.

Does the International Space Station worthes safety means nothing to countryside people ? Are you so self centered ?

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What about rural farmers’ children who want a good education? What about Cubans who are denied deep-sea cables service by the USA?

This is incredible technology that can help tens of millions of people.

“Just be a rich urban American” isn’t a good answer for the rest of the world’s population.

I think Cubans would prefer access to other ressources before low lantecy internet. Because that’s what the subject of this article. Starlink wanting access to very low earth orbit for reduce the signal distance, so the latency.

You can still have access to internet with a medium latency.

Then I’m the rest of the world. I live in an area with a density of 100people by km square. And I have fiber. Yes I’m from a west european country. My download is at more than 900mb, my upload the half. And I have a ping of 20ms.

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How do slightly higher latencies impact any of that?

You don’t even notice those unless you play a FPS. Last I checked, pwning b00ns in CS isn’t vital to a good education.

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To make it competitive with local Internet, so all services work well. On high latency connections lots of stuff like websockets, etc. will struggle too.

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It’s competitive because as you describe, it’s better than all other available forms of Internet access.

I used web sockets exactly once in an interactive piece of software. It worked perfectly fine with over-the-ocean latencies, which are higher than Starlink.

It’s a non-problem.

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That’s not how it works?

Everyone deserves decent internet access. Restriction to access results in poverty.

The article in this post is about the FCC refusing Starlink access to the very low orbit, which is close of the ISS orbit. Starlink wants access to this low orbit, for reduce latency. They don’t refuse Starlink to send more satellites, so the internet access is still available.

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It is quite literally how it works.

In addition, Starlink is not a good solution. It requires an infinite amount of rockets sent into low earth orbit forever, at a heavy subsidised cost paid for by American taxpayers.

You should be pushing for long-term solutions, not ones that literally fall out of the sky six months after the subsidies stop.

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It requires an infinite amount of rockets sent into low earth orbit forever

True.

at a heavy subsidised cost paid for by American taxpayers.

How are American taxpayers subsidizing Starlink? The gov certainly isn’t paying for Starlink launches or satellites . Starlink was also denied the $866 billion for government funded rural broadband/

Where is the tax money you’re saying come from?

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Right, I linked that in my post. So where is the taxpayer subsidy?

@MisterMoo@lemmy.world
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As soon as SpaceX gets rid of the lunatic asshole billionaire pretending to run the company, I’ll stop cheering for bad headlines. Sorry about your internet service.

@echo64@lemmy.world
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They got subsidies and were recently denied some. Don’t pretend they never got any thank you.

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Why starlink exists is because the fcc is failing us.

Everyone deserves decent internet access

Nope

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Jeez, imagine having this little interest in the needs and desires of the people who literally grow your food.

Edit: not necessarily saying LEO satellites are the best solution; I’m the furthest thing from an expert on the topic. This tone just seems wholly unproductive and spiteful.

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Pay to have fiber run to your house. Your living choice isn’t our problem.

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Additionally, get mad at the ISPs that took government funding to expand rural internet access and then didn’t. It’s always the governments fault with these people, never the corporations that are working day after day to shaft people

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The government and corporations are the same class of people. The government could have prevented that with more conditions and involvement in the grants - but they didn’t because they’ll get kick-backs from their friends later on.

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Good call. Being crashed into with a 16km/s closing speed probably would be a hindrance.

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The ISS is planned to deorbit in 2031: https://www.nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-transition-plan/

Wonder if the FCC ruling will change after it comes down?

That’s still a lot of satellites floating around that can get in the way. And it doesn’t even include the other LEO providers like Project Kuiper spooling up.

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At some point there will be more satellites than is feasible to manage.

If they aren’t already, will we start treating them like telephone poles or cell towers?

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Awww poor Musk. Maybe stop helping Russia by giving them access while denying Ukraine. Also fuck you for ruining Twitter .

Edit - apparently coverage on the Crimean coast was never activated. Still dickish for helping Russia. They’re sanctioned up the wazoo and this might come back to bite him. Starlink is a recipient of US Federal Assistance and that can easily be leveraged.

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Thank you. I actually wasn’t aware.

That’s the problem with media today.

I truly don’t blame you for not knowing. There were huge headlines for the initial story, and then smaller headlines on the retraction. Then even after the retraction people that KNOW it was retracted still spread it because Issacson must be lying.

Its not just Elon, this happens everywhere.

Get the big headlines, and bury the corrections or clarifications.

Granted, in this case I don’t think Issacson was malicious in his original reporting, but it really often is malicious

@Veneroso@lemmy.world
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I found myself in a huge echo chamber over Brexit. World news on Reddit had me believing that it would never happen.

And yeah, I follow someone for Ukraine news on YouTube. He’s pushed some theories that proved to be untrue so I guess that I have to do my own fact checking. Overall he seems to be good, but he seldomly talks about times that he was wrong.

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I can SEE his removedass writing a mad xit right now in my head, and I hate that its so easy for me to do this.

Keep your thousands of space crap out of lethal range please.

out of lethal range

Would they not be?

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Please try reading the article before commenting. This is the very first paragraph.

The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week, the FCC wrote: “SpaceX may not deploy any satellites designed for operational altitudes below the International Space Station,” whose orbit can range as low as 370 kilometers.

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Yeah y’know who’d love a low orbit relay dialed into all the root servers? Rhymes with Tooti Fruity all Rootie?

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