[Starlink] apnic piece on starlink

[David Fernández]

60+ only? Maybe it is this what you are remembering: 437 pages
https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/The%20Loon%20Library.pdf

Do you remember Solar Impulse 2 travel around the world? It had to
stop and land every five days or so. This is the evolution: Skydweller
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9865021/US-Navy-developing-pilotlesss-solar-powered-plane-fly-90-days-straight.html

The total footprint of a satellite coverage consists of multiple spot
beams with typical diameters ranging from 200-1000 km in GEO
deployments, 100-500 km in LEO deployments and 4 – 200 Km for HAPS
deployment.

Regards,

David

> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 12:38:38 -0700
> From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
> To: Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury at gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca>,  Dave Taht via Starlink
> 	<starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>, George Michaelson <ggm at apnic.net>
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] apnic piece on starlink
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> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:07 PM Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink
> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Google Spinoff Aalyira salvaged Project Loon technology for US military.
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/google-spinoff-aalyria-salvages-project-loon-technology-for-the-us-military/amp
>>
>> Hesham
>
> I did not know that. Loon did one of the greatest post-mortems of any
> project I had ever read, 60+ pages long, and I cannot find it now.
>
>
> (I love having you all on this list!)
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 11:37 AM Michael Richardson via Starlink
>> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> David Lang via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>>     > Google shuttered project Loon (balloons to do this rather than
>>> UAVs) in
>>>     > the last year or two
>>>
>>> I heard that too, but also that some external entity then put up some
>>> money
>>> and partnered to start it up again.
>>>
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