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Sauli Kiviranta wrote:

> "I have seen reports that SpaceX is in all-hands-on-deck mode to work to 
> defeat the jammers. I expect that this will include things like pointing the 
> beams at different dishy cells than they normally would use, etc."
>
> Do we have any technical characteristics about the jamming how it is
> visible to the application layer? I saw some X posts talk about 20% packet
> loss, some said 80%.
>
> Anyone from SpaceX can comment on what is the challenge "requirements" for
> contributions?

I would not expect this information to be made public. Finding out what SpaceX 
is trying (and even finding out how SpaceX categorizes the attacks as hard/easy 
to deal with) would be valuable information for those trying to block the 
signal.

David Lang