[Starlink] I had forgotten how good this was

[Brandon Butterworth]

saw this, thought oh that's awfully nice of them to go
to all that bother

https://x.com/SpaceBiz1/status/1880601039386141049
https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/01/15/spacex-tests-solution-to-starlink-satellites-interferening-with-on-ground-astronomy/

then saw these:

https://x.com/CatSE___ApeX___/status/1880640102889849065
"Nothing to do with astronomers.
Replenishrate down there is very expensive. Very frequent
beam to beam handovers. They’re forced. BC of a) Harq ACK
timeout (they don’t have ASTs patented trick) and b) FCC
throttled their power due to bad ACLR and nonexistent
sidelobe mitigation."

https://x.com/Megaconstellati/status/1880643289897894228
"Note that this is for the SpaceX Gen 2 satellites which ar
Ku-band broadband satellites, not D2D, the latter which
have never done their orbital raising but remained in
VLEO - most likely for the reason you mention"

brandon