• alberto1stone@feddit.org
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    18 days ago

    I see this radical development of the share as an expression of great hope that Eutelsat will be able to replace Starlink and, if possible, in the short term. I wonder whether this is technically possible, e.g. due to the production and launch volume of satellites or the available bandwidths. Do any of you have figures to compare both companies.

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      18 days ago

      I think what has made starlink possible at all has been that musk also owns SpaceX so he can launch a shit ton of satellites. No other launch provider can match their cadence, so I’d guess that will be a limiting factor

      • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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        18 days ago

        They only need to cover the band that orbits over Ukraine for now tho, not the entire world right

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          17 days ago

          That’s still a lot since those satellites aren’t geostationary. To guarantee a stable, permanent connection in all of Ukraine and the adjacent Sea I’d assume you might need up to 3 of those bands of satellites. Now, fortunately, Ukraine doesn’t necessarily require a lot of bandwidth. It just has to be a reliable few mbps that can be easily set up everywhere.

          • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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            5 days ago

            And they need the low latency apparently, since geostationary already existed long before starlink but they arent using it