If they are LEO, they will be all over the place like a GPS satellite. I
would imagine mostly in polar orbits? They would still have to deal with
multiple, possibly overlapping orbits.
bp
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On 11/17/2016 8:52 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Article says client side antennas will be phased array to track the
sats, also that the sats will communicate with each other.
Seems to me even with all those sats, talking about gigabit service to
customers is a bit of marketing hype.
Speaking of marketing, that would seem to be the key, how will they
market this? Unless the target market is the same people who bought
Iridium phones.
SpaceX does not have a natural existing marketing vehicle for Internet
service, I assume they will need partners or resellers. That is the
advantage a Verizon, AT&T or DISH has – millions of existing customers
they can advertise to, and offer bundle deals to.
Satellite does have a natural appeal to the “nothing on my house”
people, you can stick the antenna on a short pole in the yard. Still
not a great solution for the apartment and condo dwellers without
south facing balconies, they want indoor wireless modems. I am
assuming the LEO orbits will still be in the southern sky like GPS
sats, maybe that is wrong and they will whiz overhead in all directions?
*From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Chuck McCown
*Sent:* Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:10 AM
*To:* af@afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
I didn’t see what frequencies they are using.
Earth stations would need to track them I would think.
*From:*Tushar Patel
*Sent:*Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:00 AM
*To:*af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:*[AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-constellation-2016-11
