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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Avenir">Hi Sauli,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Avenir">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Avenir">I would like to advertise our open-source measurement plugin for Chromium browsers:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Avenir">If you are embarking on future adventures with Starlink, please install this in your browser and trigger a few tests
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Thanks and Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Nitinder Mohan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Starlink <starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of Spencer Sevilla via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 6 June 2025 at 16:44<br>
<b>To: </b>J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>, Dave Taht via Starlink <Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Starlink] Testing airBaltic free Starlink in-flight WIFI for mining remote operations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hah, J beat me to this question! Also very interested in that exact detail if you happened to collect it.<br>
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> On Jun 6, 2025, at 07:36, J Pan via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Sauli: nice test. do you happen to have any info about your public<br>
> ip address while on the plane, so we can figure out its pop and pop<br>
> handover behaviors along the way? cheers. -j<br>
> --<br>
> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 6:03</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AM Sauli Kiviranta via Starlink<br>
> <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> 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.<br>
>><br>
>> 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).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> 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.<br>
>><br>
>> Video: <a href="https://x.com/sksauli/status/1929281402354147463">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</a><br>
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>> Pretty nice performance! Few hiccups in the beginning when opening the connection, but after that it was quite smooth sailing... flying!<br>
>><br>
>> I do not think people fully comprehend what Starlink is enabling!<br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> Sauli<br>
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