SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day

SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day

fun fact: fiber optic wire doesn't have to dodge anything because it's buried in the ground
Fun fact: fiber optic cables don't need customers either because telecos took a shit ton of money in government subsidies to build them but they didn't bother finishing the job.
Unlike Elon Musk, who has never recieved government subsidies or delivered faulty products
Additional fun fact: Radio towers anchored to ground are also dodge obligation free and are able cover the supplementary mobile and wireless communications needs to complement the wired connections for cases of not being able use wires.
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Are they truly able though? I'll readily admit I'm not very knowledgeable on this, but radio towers have a limited range, right? Satellites have the ability to provide internet and communications to truly remote areas where it may be logistically challenging or impractical to build radio towers.
Aircraft have to dodge them.
Fun fact, radio towers don't work for shit. I've had 4 cellular routers for the past 5 years, and had a total of maybe 24 hours where they offered better service than Starlink due to weather.
In northern Alaska last month, a buried undersea cable was cut by ice, causing a major internet outage for a number of communities. An exceptional situation, to be sure, but it sprang to my mind immediately. No infrastructure is without hazards.
https://alaskapublic.org/2023/06/12/cut-cable-causes-weeks-long-north-slope-northwest-alaska-internet-and-cellphone-outages/
Unfortunately a fiber optic wire has to dodge lawsuits. Anything you send to space won't be destroyed or repossessed because it threatens someone's Monopoly.
I had to pay my ISP $25k to run fiber to my house :(
But now I'm the only person in the area with gigabit internet while everyone else has 1mbps DSL?
Yeah, but it's really hard to pull behind the boat. And my buddies say the installer refuses to drive through the combat zone.
Except backhoes.
I remember the story about one old lady with a shovel cutting off a part of European country (was it Romania?) from the internet. In that case if fiber optic wire could doge, it would save the day for a lot of people*
*I'm not sure if the story is true and if I remember it correctly.