Also, they didn't say that SpaceX was cutting service or stopping funding it,
they just said that they aren't going to continue to provide the service for
free indefinantly and are not going to keep providing lots of dishes for free
(apparently there are around 500/month being destroyed due to combat)
David Lang
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022, David Lang wrote:
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:35:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Lang <[email protected]>
To: Larry Press <[email protected]>
Cc: Kurtis Heimerl <[email protected]>, David Lang <[email protected]>,
Starlink list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?
some interesting tidbits in that article
1. 25k dishes rather than the 15k I had heard befor
2. they are providing full business rates rather than consumer rates
2a. it's interesting that they can do this with the consumer dishes, although
a lot of what I saw shipped were the gen1 (round) dishes, which may be better
than the gen 2 consumer dishes.
yes, the companies who manufacture the weapons have been paid in full.
I think it's worth pointing out that Starlink was never intended to be the
entire communications infrastructure for a country. I think it would be a
very interesting thing to investigate what the actual density of users and
data usage is (there is a graph posted, but I haven't tried to get a good
enough copy of it to see the units). It could confirm/refute the "starlink
can't scale" argument
David Lang
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022, Larry Press wrote:
SpaceX has given a more detailed statement of expenses to the Pentagon:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine/index.html
They have been "paid" in favorable publicity and have tested/refined things
like mobile connectivity.
Aren't the companies that supply weapons, ammunition, etc. paid?
Larry
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Lang via Starlink <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 10:28 AM
To: Kurtis Heimerl <[email protected]>
Cc: Starlink list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink no longer available to the Ukrainian army?
Having now read more info on this, less significant than the $80m total
figure
is the $20m/month figure he quoted. With 15k dishes as the figure that they
sent
(separate from whatever has been purchased on the commercial side), that
works
out to 1.3k/dish/month, which is very high.
now, not being able to deploy reliable ground stations inside Ukraine could
be
driving up costs, plus the ongoing battle against jamming. But in his tweet
he
also cites satellite costs, which should not be allocated as "Ukraine
related"
costs (and I don't think the cyberdefense and jamming defense work should
be
either)
David Lang
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022, Kurtis Heimerl via Starlink wrote:
This thread
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/dim0kq/status/1580827171903635456__;!!P7nkOOY!reUDfoQpkbJ6YAQ6h436UHdL9D0lnxDeqlc29JPUsrl8V_02dlWYYFi4zfQ-CCRLKetEGxza7FjOyJDcUURE6WtPnA$
)
strongly argues that Starlink is largely paid for their service, at
least on the consumer side. I imagine there are significant
operational expenses in dealing with the various actors involved but
not on the basic model.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:06 AM Juliusz Chroboczek via Starlink
<[email protected]> wrote:
In essence, once you give something away for free, not even setting the
expectation that it’s a “freemium” model, it’s very hard to get out of
it. If
you then claim your costs are way higher than what analysis work out,
eyebrows
raise way above the hairline.
Uh. Hmm.
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