[Starlink] Starlink Internet Speeds Could Skyrocket to 2 Gigabits Per Second, SpaceX President Says

[Sascha Meinrath]

For those who haven't been following the Starshield project (and its exponential 
ramp-up)... I fully expect that Musk will focus more on military-industrial 
complex funding than in trying to repurpose FCC or NTIA support -- why fight in 
the trenches for hundreds of millions when you can repurpose 
billions/tens-of-billions elsewhere:

https://spacenews.com/pentagons-commercial-satellite-internet-services-program-soars-to-13-billion/

And yes, Starshield is just as scary and prone for abuse as Michael alludes to.

--Sascha

On 11/23/24 13:29, Michael Richardson via Starlink wrote:
> 
> Ulrich Speidel via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>      > to launch at a faster rate or with fewer sats per launch. It's also a bit
>      > more crowded in lower space, as this is where a lot of earth observation
>      > spacecraft sit (if you want to take detailed pics of the Earth's surface, you
>      > want it to be as close to your camera lens as you can have it), and some of
>      > those aren't there for open source public good science.
> 
> <sincecism alert>
> 1. I'm sure that spaceX could just include cameras for earth observation of dissidents.
> 2. Earth observation will be obsolete according to Project 2025.
> 3. Elon will own the FCC.
> 
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> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF at sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
>             Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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Sascha Meinrath
Director, X-Lab
Palmer Chair in Telecommunications
Penn State University