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From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
To: Ulrich Speidel <u.speidel@auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>,
	 "starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net"
	<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink power use & satellite tracking
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 02:52:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9o926n83-59qp-2p27-459r-q66n48s58n1n@ynat.uz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59d5e2b7-ee1e-9019-fb98-3a81fd8bf545@auckland.ac.nz>

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On Sat, 18 Feb 2023, Ulrich Speidel via Starlink wrote:

> This requires the satellite to be in view of both terminal and gateway. There 
> is, however, no reason why a user's packets could not travel via a diversity 
> of satellites.

In theory you are correct, but I don't think they are doing that yet. We had a 
discussion of the signaling protocol and someone posted that they had done 
research and found that there was only one satellite illuminating a cell at a 
time. IIRC this was when the paper came out on using starlink signals for 
positioning.

As they launch more satellites and get the in-space routing up and running, I 
expect that they will change that at some point.

it is an interesting question.

David Lang

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-18 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-16 23:08 Ulrich Speidel
2023-02-16 23:12 ` Nathan Owens
2023-02-16 23:14   ` Nathan Owens
2023-02-16 23:25     ` Jonathan Bennett
2023-02-16 23:23 ` David Lang
2023-02-16 23:36   ` David Lang
2023-02-17  1:24 ` Bruce Perens
2023-02-17  5:27   ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-02-17  5:31     ` Nathan Owens
2023-02-17 15:43     ` Michael Richardson
2023-02-17 19:13       ` Bruce Perens
2023-02-18 10:25       ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-02-18 10:52         ` David Lang [this message]
2023-02-18 12:36           ` Ulrich Speidel
2023-02-18 20:13             ` Bruce Perens

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