Oops-a-daisy
SpaceEx loses 40 (FORTY) satellites in geomagnetic storm.
Is Starlink a Good Thing? I can't tell.
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Wed 9 Feb 2022, 4:47,
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I'd be curious to know if they respond by trying to improve resilience or simply just chuck another forty up
on the basis that if they had moved to a higher position they'd presumably not have been affected so possibly it isn't worth spending time and money on improving their ability to ride out a storm.
Is Starlink good? No idea, I've seen complaints from astronomers whose photographs are affected but I'd assume that isn't just Starlink.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 9:34, Reply)
They'd just been launched and hadn't raised orbit yet
It was the massive increase in drag from the heated upper atmosphere wot got em, not the radiation. If they'd been on station they'd have done just as well as the other Christ knows how many thousand already up there. Just shitty timing really. Only realistic solution is to chalk fuck on it and launch another job lot.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 13:05, Reply)
Starlink may or may not do its intended job well, I dunno, I'm not a user
- but it fucking ruins the night sky for astronomical photography. Fucking hate the shiny little fuckers.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 11:55,
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yeah, he could have forced to spend a little more on each one and made them less reflective
but it turns out no one is regulating this
Still, with his proposed 40,000 satellites or so, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome will probably solve that problem and stop anyone from going up for centuries
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 22:07,
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I'm a Starlink beta tester.
It's brilliant and flawless. And it took me out of 25 years of shitty satellite "broadband". I really disliked Elon Musk until this. They clearly engineered Starlink very thoroughly.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 13:00,
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Power
How does the power consumption compare? In comparison to normal broadband its terrible.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 18:20, Reply)
I don't know.
It uses a typical router, which is hiding behind my desk, but can't be too much of a power hog. In snow, the dish has a heating element which is probably the culprit behind any complaints. I couldn't be happier, as I give the big satellite isp's my middle finger.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 21:44,
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