The present architecture is logically a bent pipe, where a moving satellite
(preferably more than one, for make before break handoff function) needs to
be simultaneously in view of a starlink earth station and the CPE.
In the long term this may not be an absolute. Ten beta test satellites that
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On 3/29/21 07:21, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
The US State Department is already a large customer for dedicated
transponder capacity, in C-band hemispheric and Ku beams in some weird
places in the world.
As a randomly chosen example if you take a look at the roof of the UK
embassy in Kabul, there'
The US State Department is already a large customer for dedicated
transponder capacity, in C-band hemispheric and Ku beams in some weird
places in the world.
As a randomly chosen example if you take a look at the roof of the UK
embassy in Kabul, there's a nice 4 meter size Andrew/Commscope compact
By definition and orbital mechanics, low earth orbit things don't "park"
anywhere. There's an equal number of starlink satellites over Mongolia
right now as there are over the same latitude locations in the US and
Canada.
https://satellitemap.space/
This also becomes intuitive once one plays Kerb
On 3/29/21 02:23, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
I am not saying it is an impossible problem to solve, but any system
intended for that sort of purpose would have to be designed for
circumvention, and not a consumer/COTS adaptation of an off the shelf
starlink terminal.
Behind the walls of an embas
Net to mention, of course, that the Low Orbit constellation would need to be
"parked" over China (or where-ever you want to access it). I am quite sure
that "shooting down" such low orbit stationary vehicles would not be too
difficult. And if they are owned by an adversary who has no permiss
This is a fascinating discussion.
Also keep in mind that starlink satellites need many earth stations to
downlink customer packets and provide internet transit. There are over
50 satellite earth stations in the US already.
Here is a great google map of the current ground stations based on FCC
No need for all that fancy RF tools.
Moreover, detecting >10Ghz transmission is not such an easy task.
The beam is most likely narrow enough to be difficult to detect.
But, (for example) it's enough to visit from foreign IPs some local
website,
to have cookie set: SATELLITE_USER=xyz
Then when p
I would also concur that the likelihood of Starlink (or a Oneweb, or
Kuiper) terminal being used successfully to bypass the GFW or similar
serious Internet censorship, in an authoritarian environment, is probably
low. This is because:
a) It has to transmit in known bands.
b) It has to be located
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