[Starlink] APNIC56 last week

[David Fernández]

Hi David,

Mike said each satellite has 3 ISL, two connecting to the satellites
in front and back in the same orbital plane, then a third one that can
point anywhere (almost):

https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/starlink/2022-September/001000.html?fbclid=IwAR0TaPTdxVEp5iVWxch91mjnDT7aKVaOXPmyOd93PBING29YBWy9SNbV278

Regards,

David

> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Lang <david at lang.hm>
> To: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week
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> I believe that I read that STarlink has 5 lasers per sat. but whatever the
> number, it's a tiny number compared to the number of satellites that they
> have
> up there.
>
> As you are looking at 'trains', check their altitude. They aren't going to
> shuffle sats around much, it's expensive in terms of fuel and they are only
> allowed to provide service when they are in their proper orbits.
>
> We know the lasers are in operation as they are providing service to places
> more
> than one sat hop away from ground stations. We also know they have a lot of
> ground stations around to share the load.
>
> We have almost no details on the specific modules they are using, and none
> on
> what routing they are using.
>
> David Lang