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From: Sascha Meinrath <sascha@thexlab.org>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>,
	Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink Internet Speeds Could Skyrocket to 2 Gigabits Per Second, SpaceX President Says
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:51:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f678b2a-4827-4334-a3c2-75d01bf0f06b@thexlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7032.1732386555@obiwan.sandelman.ca>

For those who haven't been following the Starshield project (and its exponential 
ramp-up)... I fully expect that Musk will focus more on military-industrial 
complex funding than in trying to repurpose FCC or NTIA support -- why fight in 
the trenches for hundreds of millions when you can repurpose 
billions/tens-of-billions elsewhere:

https://spacenews.com/pentagons-commercial-satellite-internet-services-program-soars-to-13-billion/

And yes, Starshield is just as scary and prone for abuse as Michael alludes to.

--Sascha

On 11/23/24 13:29, Michael Richardson via Starlink wrote:
> 
> Ulrich Speidel via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>      > to launch at a faster rate or with fewer sats per launch. It's also a bit
>      > more crowded in lower space, as this is where a lot of earth observation
>      > spacecraft sit (if you want to take detailed pics of the Earth's surface, you
>      > want it to be as close to your camera lens as you can have it), and some of
>      > those aren't there for open source public good science.
> 
> <sincecism alert>
> 1. I'm sure that spaceX could just include cameras for earth observation of dissidents.
> 2. Earth observation will be obsolete according to Project 2025.
> 3. Elon will own the FCC.
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
>             Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Sascha Meinrath
Director, X-Lab
Palmer Chair in Telecommunications
Penn State University


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-25 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-22 22:16 Hesham ElBakoury
2024-11-22 22:33 ` Dave Taht
2024-11-22 23:32   ` Ulrich Speidel
2024-11-23  1:13     ` Brandon Butterworth
2024-11-23  6:05     ` David Lang
2024-11-23 13:30       ` Ulrich Speidel
2024-11-23 18:29     ` Michael Richardson
2024-11-23 20:05       ` Dave Taht
2024-11-24  3:39         ` Ulrich Speidel
2024-11-25 14:51       ` Sascha Meinrath [this message]
2024-11-25 16:59         ` David Lang
2024-11-25 17:20           ` Steve Stroh
2024-11-25 17:29             ` Dave Taht

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