[Starlink] thinking about the laser links again

[David Lang]

As a stunt, I think they will be able to do it fairly soon, using the satellites 
that they have launched for polar coverage, they just need to time it so that 
they have birds in the right place for a few seconds (and it may not be the 
lowest latency possible, but as a stunt, who knows how far they could go)

As a practical thing, a year or two, they need to launch a lot of new birds, and 
we don't know what is holding up the starlink launches the last several months.

David Lang

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Dave Taht wrote:

> Anyway, good discussion on this thread!!! but all of you failed to
> answer my humdinger question - *when* will they be able to route a
> packet from new york to tokyo over the laser links? That kind of event
> would be a world network latency record - right up there in
> significance with the first inter-imp comms oct 29 1969: