[Starlink] Testing airBaltic free Starlink in-flight WIFI for mining remote operations

[Nitinder Mohan]

Hi Sauli,

I saw the video. It's pretty cool stuff! I would also like to know any network-related information you may have collected.

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Date: Friday, 6 June 2025 at 16:44
To: J Pan <Pan at uvic.ca>, Dave Taht via Starlink <Starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Testing airBaltic free Starlink in-flight WIFI for mining remote operations
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Hah, J beat me to this question! Also very interested in that exact detail if you happened to collect it.

> On Jun 6, 2025, at 07:36, J Pan via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Sauli: nice test. do you happen to have any info about your public
> ip address while on the plane, so we can figure out its pop and pop
> handover behaviors along the way? cheers.  -j
> --
> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM Sauli Kiviranta via Starlink
> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>> Last weekend I was flying from Austria to Riga, and got opportunity to test Starlink enabled in-flight WIFI now freely available from AirBaltic. While flying over Poland, I did a remote control "fuse check" test on a robotic camera in a Finnish mine 400m underground, some 1300km away from the plane.
>>
>> Scenario: I did remote operations test to control the camera in the mine, with the control loop from XRTC client running through the plane WIFI (along with the 150 other users!) to Starlink likely terminated in Poland, then to our XRTC based RTSP relay server running on AWS in Sweden, all the way to a Finnish mine 400m underground, where we have the mine WIFI connected to a AXIS Q6135-LE PTZ camera that terminated the XRTC acceleration for the TCP traffic. Then naturally the full signal loop is returning back same path in reverse with the captured live video to be shown on my laptop in the airplane (picture).
>>
>>
>>
>> Check the video below. What this means is that I could very well be operating a mining machine, drone, or any kind of robotic platform from anywhere, anytime, around the globe. Even if the target is full autonomy, there will be many cases where partial autonomy is the path in-between, like I was now controlling the camera in the mine.
>>
>> Video:  https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fsksauli%2Fstatus%2F1929281402354147463&data=05%7C02%7Cn.mohan%40tudelft.nl%7C4197cd793bb74c48cd2008dda508957b%7C096e524d692940308cd38ab42de0887b%7C0%7C0%7C638848178510683456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jb5UYB2LU5yYjhQ%2Bqe%2BlliHA6oS7oj8tXXfajA3Rs0U%3D&reserved=0<https://x.com/sksauli/status/1929281402354147463>
>>
>> Pretty nice performance! Few hiccups in the beginning when opening the connection, but after that it was quite smooth sailing... flying!
>>
>> I do not think people fully comprehend what Starlink is enabling!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sauli
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