The Pentagon will solicit its first mesh network in space May 1
.@elonmusk when will starlink be fully deployed? Africa needs it for some very urgent special project. # @ceenettech
Hopefully start serving Africa early next year
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Broadly speaking, Starlink is best at providing connectivity to remote, isolated users (farms, small towns, remote residences), so our system offers a good solution for those users who are hardest to reach via fiber. Service levels of 100 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up would generally be anticipated, but depends on how dense the user-base is within a region. Latency will be very low, ~30 ms or so, far quicker than existing satellite-based solutions due to our much lower orbit, and comparable to fiber. User segment is a 19-inch electronically steered antenna, mounted on one’s rooftop.
Here's Jamie Hadden's comment to the Nebraska Rural Broadband Task Force about a year ago.Quote from: https://ruralbroadband.nebraska.gov/reports/2019/comments/CommentsOct2018toAug2019.pdfBroadly speaking, Starlink is best at providing connectivity to remote, isolated users (farms, small towns, remote residences), so our system offers a good solution for those users who are hardest to reach via fiber. Service levels of 100 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up would generally be anticipated, but depends on how dense the user-base is within a region. Latency will be very low, ~30 ms or so, far quicker than existing satellite-based solutions due to our much lower orbit, and comparable to fiber. User segment is a 19-inch electronically steered antenna, mounted on one’s rooftop.
Quote from: RedLineTrain on 05/25/2020 06:23 pmHere's Jamie Hadden's comment to the Nebraska Rural Broadband Task Force about a year ago.Quote from: https://ruralbroadband.nebraska.gov/reports/2019/comments/CommentsOct2018toAug2019.pdfBroadly speaking, Starlink is best at providing connectivity to remote, isolated users (farms, small towns, remote residences), so our system offers a good solution for those users who are hardest to reach via fiber. Service levels of 100 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up would generally be anticipated, but depends on how dense the user-base is within a region. Latency will be very low, ~30 ms or so, far quicker than existing satellite-based solutions due to our much lower orbit, and comparable to fiber. User segment is a 19-inch electronically steered antenna, mounted on one’s rooftop.Yes.This is how NGSO's business case shines vs Terrestrial cable/fiber etc business case. It is all about the infrastructure cost / subscriber as related to subscribers per sq km. An NGSO like Starlink would have little to no variability in infrastructure costs regardless of the moderate to low subscribers per sq km values. But terrestrial has high costs variation based on subscriber per sq km. For terrestrial providers. Servicing rural areas will never be a significant money maker due to the high installation and maintenance costs of the infrastructure.There is a raging debate in the Starlink General thread https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=48297.1540 about this as related to terrestrial providers getting a subsidy for putting in infrastructure yo teach customers that currently have no Internet access.The question here is this will affect how SpaceX/Starlink approaches the rural Market as well as how aggressive marketing to them is to be in attracting subscribers before subsidized terrestrial providers installed infrastructure reaches these subscribers.There is also with the Canada licencing request a similar question as well as how aggressive such Marketing will be in Canada for similar potential subscribers. In that Starlink can initially provide services to certain areas of Canada but not all initially. How the Canada Market could as well bring changes to Starlink deployment plans (higher inclination orbits earlier) could happen. To expand the size of the subscriber Market in Canada rapidly.
U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadbandby Sandra Erwin — May 26, 2020The Army is trying to fill a growing demand for connectivity in the field.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will experiment using Starlink broadband to move data across military networks. An agreement signed with SpaceX on May 20 gives the Army three years to test out the service.
Quote U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadbandby Sandra Erwin — May 26, 2020The Army is trying to fill a growing demand for connectivity in the field.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will experiment using Starlink broadband to move data across military networks. An agreement signed with SpaceX on May 20 gives the Army three years to test out the service.https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-assess-starlink-broadband/
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/26/2020 04:09 pmQuote U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadbandby Sandra Erwin — May 26, 2020The Army is trying to fill a growing demand for connectivity in the field.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will experiment using Starlink broadband to move data across military networks. An agreement signed with SpaceX on May 20 gives the Army three years to test out the service.https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-assess-starlink-broadband/Like someone wrote on Arstechnica, Elon Musk is indeed the real-life version of Tony Stark.I'm eagerly waiting until he solves time travel.
Quote from: loekf on 05/26/2020 08:00 pmQuote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 05/26/2020 04:09 pmQuote U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadbandby Sandra Erwin — May 26, 2020The Army is trying to fill a growing demand for connectivity in the field.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army will experiment using Starlink broadband to move data across military networks. An agreement signed with SpaceX on May 20 gives the Army three years to test out the service.https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-assess-starlink-broadband/Like someone wrote on Arstechnica, Elon Musk is indeed the real-life version of Tony Stark.I'm eagerly waiting until he solves time travel.The key point that would provide tremendous value to the US military for using Starlink is sat-sat links. It already has all the other properties that the US DOD wants in this initial deployment. Hopefully they get the sat to sat links deployed and working before the end of the 3 year evaluation period.The US Government would be a Market for communication services worldwide. Possibly an eventual Mil frequency antennas on V2.0 sats for operation worldwide under US government responsibility for any RFI occurring. This would be a significant multi $B comm services contract. The comm data traffic could be an equivalent to a few million household subscriptions. But it would be spread to mostly outside of US. Usage in the US would be to support training and remote operations and deployments such as National Guard for disasters.
I figured a very attractive feature for the military would be user to user links with no landing between. It would be hard to get much more secure than that.
In a recent interview, an executive from "Orange", one of France's biggest ISP, said that his company was actively working with SpaceX on Starlink and that their collaboration was quite successful!
If I were SpaceX, given the OneWeb purchase out of bankruptcy, I would immediately file for landing rights in the UK and India. It could take a few months for CFIUS to make a decision.
