Re: [Starlink] one dish per household is silly.

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Dave Taht via Starlink wrote:

> A) Am I the only person left in the world that shares his wifi?

doing so would require that you know your neighbors, in much of the country, 
especially urban areas, neighbors seeing each other in a store would not 
recognize each other, let alone know their names.

> B) I keep seeing estimates of service life being 5 years, when at the
> moment I see it being 10 or more.

This is due to the FAA approvals of the satellites. I believe the specs that are 
approved say that they are fueled for 'at least' a 5 year lifetime, and are in 
orbits that will cause them to re-enter within 5 years if they fail (with the 
intent being that at the end of their lifetime, they do a controlled re-entry)

this repetition of '5 years' has been picked up. I think the v2 and v2 mini 
satellites have more fuel capacity. But they are currently still quite a ways 
out from a steady state of reentries vs launches (even without starship)

David Lang