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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Inemesit Affia <inemesitaffia@gmail.com>
Cc: David Lang <david@lang.hm>, starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Ambani Launches 15 Billion Dollars Space War Against Starlink
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:35:19 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7845q3q0-n9p9-4o7s-pp6o-qoq4o5570p4o@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420d6743-7257-4a3a-9c6a-04ef0c445cbb@gmail.com>

Inemesit Affia wrote:

> There must be some disadvantages to flat sats.

their surface area, frame size is bigger for the same internal volume.
they don't pack around a 'normal' deployment column as well, you either need a 
starship style pez deployment (which isn't useful on things smaller than 
starhips) or you need to do the spin/release approach, which can result in your 
satellites colliding with each other (something nobody would ever consider with 
traditional satellite 'pet' mentality)

> But it's worth noting that China is using them.

they do not have as entrenched a tradition and are more willing to try things 
than western 'old space' companies

David Lang

  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-30 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-21 18:11 [Starlink] Ambani Launches 15 Billion Dollars Space War Against Starlink Hesham ElBakoury
2026-06-21 19:03 ` [Starlink] " Frantisek Borsik
2026-06-21 19:11   ` Inemesit Affia
2026-06-21 19:24     ` Frantisek Borsik
2026-06-21 19:55   ` David Lang
2026-06-22  0:01     ` Joe Hamelin
2026-06-30  7:51       ` David Lang
2026-06-30  8:07         ` Inemesit Affia
2026-06-30 10:35           ` David Lang [this message]
2026-06-22  1:28 ` David Collier-Brown
2026-06-30  6:01   ` [Starlink] Partial network outage. Seems like DNS. Any active probes see anything? Inemesit Affia
2026-06-30  6:02     ` [Starlink] " Inemesit Affia
2026-06-30  6:57       ` [Starlink] A new radome colour for Starlink Ground/Earth station Inemesit Affia
2026-06-30 16:47         ` [Starlink] " J Pan
2026-06-30 16:50     ` [Starlink] Re: Partial network outage. Seems like DNS. Any active probes see anything? J Pan

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