From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>,
starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink lost over 200 satellites in two months – tracker data
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:27:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31028.1696249662@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <618b4118-cb0a-4780-a868-f390e2679d90@auckland.ac.nz>
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Ulrich Speidel via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> In the case of Starlink, there is also the minor issue that their initial
> constellation that they started commercial ops with isn't ISL-capable, so
> there may be an incentive here to retire some satellites early, perhaps, and
> fill their orbital slots with more capable birds.
I think that it falls into the fail-early dot-com mantra :-)
Shorter lifetimes means shorter times to upgrade the network.
Not just the ISL, but also the rest of the forwarding hardware.
Given that spaceX is putting these satellites up at marginal launch costs,
and I think getting a very very significant R&D and publicity boost from the
very rapid pace of launches and booster reuses, it seems like it's just a win-win-win.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-02 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-19 14:48 the keyboard of geoff goodfellow
2023-09-19 22:55 ` Dave Taht
2023-10-02 10:15 ` Alexandre Petrescu
2023-10-02 10:39 ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-10-02 12:27 ` Michael Richardson [this message]
2023-10-02 13:48 ` Alexandre Petrescu
2023-10-02 20:08 ` David Lang
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