• 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.

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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