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OfflineDuhrwood Stevens
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Have you seen the Starlink satellites??? * 1
    #27016251 - 11/01/20 07:21 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

A couple months ago my gf said ''come outside and see this'', there was a bunch of lights, 30 or so moving against the night sky in formation.

Turns out Elon Musk is surrounding the planet with a network of satellites to have global sat phones but only like 1G???

Sometimes there are like 90 visible going in more than one direction.

Here's a link to see satellites by location without a telescope, pretty cool imo. :goodluck:
https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?


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Re: Have you seen the Starlink satellites??? [Re: Duhrwood Stevens]
    #27016282 - 11/01/20 07:41 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

I’ve seen them a couple times. The satellites from recent deployments have been modified to be less reflective after astronomers started complaining that they were becoming a nuisance to their work. The result is the chains are much harder to see than they were a few months ago.


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Re: Have you seen the Starlink satellites??? [Re: koods]
    #27016292 - 11/01/20 07:47 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Have caught them a few times using similar websites.  Longest chain was 42, but only could make out about 10 of them. 

It's not 1G by any means. Beta testing is showing 70 mbps on average and up to 150.  The latency of a connection from across the globe is also smaller than with traditional fiber optic cable lines connecting continents, because the data is beamed between satellites using lasers.


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Re: Have you seen the Starlink satellites??? [Re: PatrickKn]
    #27016303 - 11/01/20 07:55 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Apparently the setup costs $250 and service is $100 per month


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