From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sandelman.ca; dkim=pass header.d=sandelman.ca; arc=none (Message is not ARC signed); dmarc=none Received: from tuna.sandelman.ca (tuna.sandelman.ca [209.87.249.19]) by mail.toke.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B22BBC7DED for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:32:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tuna.sandelman.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8568018011; Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from tuna.sandelman.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with LMTP id TgfwPFK9_BjI; Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:02 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sandelman.ca; s=mail; t=1768674722; bh=ekskhqPulf5pQ5DrNUgjNAt4QjjZqY6mBQ5Zn8SSTH0=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=s292pwvc/dnej1KTaXiu3XM7sHsHeWkOq8fQ6v/Q/zvt4iQz2ICCTkxhBIq1m/VbM jMch4bcfpN7BEYmjP8nXbAs5CSkDuSzrY4LHtNXwbUQ7t1E8b4IP+TJmw+mVjWGNV3 SXuFI2EyiIaxy9PjFAnQLr2i+O6y+aFHmPSVUSUlaqqwpi6iPISRshw70U4PdKp8fb 0VwsiIRGBq4/MuF2DsVnybc0lsok3u3lnO34tZvAgb5xzhIWlaLnqlw1p1PJaanG/0 vsSe1YtfmTecW9MLiV0P9kbGamZPOu8GyyojedBB7ZY7pTbWRg+iVyjRvYIUy446x3 asr6hMQIj02gg== Received: from sandelman.ca (obiwan.sandelman.ca [IPv6:2607:f0b0:f:2::247]) by tuna.sandelman.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C316518010; Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from obiwan.sandelman.ca (obiwan.sandelman.ca [127.0.0.1]) by sandelman.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5E01AE; Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:02 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Richardson To: Ulrich Speidel , starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: <1412cd78-ec8e-487f-8086-6ea51b4301a5@auckland.ac.nz> References: <176851123059.1249.8585659892308012167@gauss> <5ea10a2c-4549-4d7f-9563-c5dc590857b0@auckland.ac.nz> <13187.1768590201@obiwan.sandelman.ca> <1412cd78-ec8e-487f-8086-6ea51b4301a5@auckland.ac.nz> X-Mailer: MH-E 8.6+git; nmh 1.8+dev; Emacs 30.1 X-Face: $\n1pF)h^`}$H>Hk{L"x@)JS7<%Az}5RyS@k9X%29-lHB$Ti.V>2bi.~ehC0;<'$9xN5Ub# z!G,p`nR&p7Fz@^UXIn156S8.~^@MJ*mMsD7=QFeq%AL4m Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:32:02 -0500 Message-ID: <1445.1768674722@obiwan.sandelman.ca> Message-ID-Hash: AWQTTD7XES2H5KTAKW5Z2NZTD4CUQR5K X-Message-ID-Hash: AWQTTD7XES2H5KTAKW5Z2NZTD4CUQR5K X-MailFrom: mcr@sandelman.ca X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list Subject: [Starlink] Re: Starlink and Iran List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: -------- Ulrich Speidel wrote: >> 1. Who checks/enforces this ITU limit? > The licensing authorities in the respective countries (i.e., the FCC= in the > US - and they're held to account by their competitors, of which Spac= eX has a > few in the US). At an international level, if one country were to > ignore Yes, but dieselgate. Obey, except when it is important not to. >> 2. Could the physically satellites go higher over some territory? H= ow much higher? >> I assume it's software controlled. > A satellite has three types of energy that determine its orbital mot= ion: > Potential energy from orbital height, kinetic energy from moving, an= d > energy Sorry, you mis-understood, or I mis-typed, I now understand. I meant, go to a higher-power. Not a higher orbit :-) ---- (Has anyone proposed eliptical orbits for LEOs or MEOs, such that they wou= ld be lower whenever they are over the service territory, and higher otherwis= e. I imagine it would be horribly complex to work out, given various precessions, and it's not clear to me why. I think because less drag when not low down...) -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networ= ks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | IoT architect= [ ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails = [