[Starlink] Starlink "beam spread"

[David Lang]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, David P. Reed wrote:

> What's interesting to me is that their coverage map definitely doesn't cover 
> Africa, South America, Cuba, large parts of Asia, and it isn't planned - if 
> they had "mesh routing" working among satellites, those would be easy. But 
> instead, they seem to be focused on the satellite one-bounce architecture 
> (what the satellite industry calls "bent-pipe" however it is done).

The countries covered in the coverage map seems to be as much or more restricted 
by regulations as anything technical.

David Lang