[Starlink] Starlink Rival Astranis Debuts Next-Gen Satelite with 5X More Capacity – Zimbabwe Leading Tech Magazine

[David Lang]

On Fri, 17 May 2024, Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink wrote:

> The new Omega satellite promises to offer more internet capacity at a low
> cost with a new satellite designed to beam over 50Gbps of internet capacity
> to the Earth.
>
> https://technomag.co.zw/starlink-rival-astranis-debuts-next-gen-satelite-with-5x-more-capacity/

do they realize that the starlink v2-mini satellites are at 50-100Gbps 
currently? yes the individual user is only getting ~200Mb, because they have 
enough customers to need to share the available bandwidth (and if you want to 
pay enough, you can get a lot more)

not to mention the increased latency from the signal having to travel 60x as far 
(or the problem that there are far fewer satellites that can be deployed at 
geostationary orbit than at the starlink altitudes)

the article authors read a press release and don't know what they are talking 
about :-(

David Lang
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