[Starlink] Starship's 4th flight test was magnificent

[Alexandre Petrescu]

Le 10/06/2024 à 01:50, Dave Taht via Starlink a écrit :
>
> [...] seeing starlink maintain connectivity through nearly it all of 
> that plasma was amazing, too.

I dont understand: the rocket body and head ('starship')  where 
connected to starlink sats during flight?  Wouldnt be enough to transmit 
straight to ground?  Or maybe the entire trajectory is too long too 
distanced from ground receivers?

Alex

> To be massively cheered up about spaceflight, hit starlink's web site 
> for the video. It is hard to imagine them attempting a catch of the 
> booster for flight 5, that close to boca chica, but...
>
> But that left questions for me. How much overweight are Starship and 
> the booster now? How much payload can they actually push to an orbit 
> suitable for deploying starlink? When will they attempt payloads?
>
> The second set of questions are that the newer, larger Starlink 
> satellites were designed, oh, 4 years ago? with about 4x the capacity 
> of the existing ones, and I imagine (and hope) that they have been 
> continually redesigned with an eye to latency now, as well as 
> capacity. Seeing something like fq_codel actually make orbit would be 
> a capstone to my career, when I started off wanting to be an "orbital 
> mechanic"  in the first place but exited entirely after challenger 
> went down...
>
> Lastly, I couldn't help but imagine small repair robots deploying once 
> in orbit to get a full view of every tile on starship, and perhaps 
> effect repairs. Call 'em Hewey, Duey and Louie....
>
> Ad Astra!
>
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