Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Why Starlink Is Crucial To SpaceX’s Success" video.

  1. Maybe AT&T will get in on the game as well. Competition does drive improvements in cost and performance.
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  2.  @MalikSmith774  AT&T could survive with just fibre optic systems as they are the gold standard of communications but I feel they will also get in on the satellite communications systems.
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  3. It could turn them into a trillion dollar company and that would be a good thing for space exploration. But I think they will not be the only trillion dollar company in on the game.
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  4. 99.99% of people are going to notice nothing in the sky at night. At&T networks on the ground in city areas are fantastic but not so much for the suburbs. Competition is a good thing and maybe Starlink will drive the lines of AT&T to make better a better larger network. Wireless solutions in cities for the last connection from the house to the pole or cabinet can open up highspeed quality connections for more people. There are currently 5 billion people on earth who do not have high-speed connections. Such a high speed satellite system could revolutionize communications in places like africa and help them with developing their trade economies.
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  5. @Motherbrain I will explain how competitors will be able to play in the marketplace. SpaceX is opening up its launch business to the marketplace. I suspect how this will play out is that SpaceX will not build the entire network up there and that it will have an infrastructure that will be owned by multiple corporations. Clearly SpaceX will be a major player in that realm. I am currently building ground level infrastructure and have plans for next generation scaled networks on the ground. Exciting times ahead.
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  6. Would it not be better to keep it up and active as long as possible?
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  7. The volume space around earth that satellites can operate from is about 18 billion cubic kilometers. I think once people understand that they may understand that there is a lot of space up there.
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  8. Low earth orbit in several billion square kilometers of space. The kessler syndrome is nonsense at best.
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  9. It is a monopoly because of the infrastructure development costs and regulations that inhibit growth.
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  10. Low earth orbit is in an area of about several billions square kilometers.
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  11. Over 80% of the world's population lives in rural settings. DO you honestly believe everybody should living in cities? A world of only mega cities would not be a very nice world to be honest.
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  12. The free market means competition will happen and he best will win. With just one type of satellite it would mean putting all your eggs in one basket. The reason why America is the most successful country on earth is because they build large numbers of baskets and have them compete.
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  13. Communications services are expensive and government regulations drives up the price.
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  14. If they live near a badly run city then it might be a good idea to move close to one that is well run but that obviously depends if they have the abilities to move.
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  15. Currently 5 billion people do not have access to high speed networks. Imagine what sort of trade will be available once those 5 billion can have easy constant access.
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  16. 20000 will be to supply internet to all 7.5 billion people on earth. Long before that they will be covering Europe and America.
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  17. They are all competing with one other. We may not like it but it could also drive humanity forward. If the next conflicts can happen in industries rather than in wars we may all be the better for it.
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  18. @Toby Ihli The technology that we from the engineering that takes us to mars will have great benefits on earth. The developments from Robotics being used on mars will enable us to have even great robotics on earth. New materials engineering will grow from that endeavors as well. There is then also the idea that humans have to try and branch out because one large disaster on earth could end all of humanity. You are thinking about this from a linear point of view but you need to think of it from a exponential point of view. It may take us 20 years to get to Mars but then it may only take 10 years to develop space stations that could be used for mining in space. There are a whole list of rare resources out in the solar system that whole new industries could be based on.
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  19. If the world wants fast easy internet then it will require such a system as Starlink.
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  20. Space is extremely big. Low earth orbit has a area that is measured in billions of square kilometers.
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  21. You can live in your fantasy world of science fiction. Everybody else will being using the system.
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  22. It will take about 25 years for them to really have issues. 5 years being quoted by people is not the average but worse case scenario for a single satellite. Space debris is an an issue with high orbit satellites not low orbit.
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  23. If those companies get into the market and compete with Starlink then it will be a win win for customers.
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  24. Wireless last mile solutions will become available at some point when the the technology develops further.
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  25. If and when we have the ability to travel to mars and form moon bases we will also have the technology for new Satellites that are not so obvious.
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  26. At a altitude of 550 km that leaves an area of about 700 million square kilometers. I think the issue you are trying to push is not an issue. People like your self do not get to dictate people's access to communications systems because you decide to dream things up. Your attitude is very common in the modern world.
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  27. @fellpower I live the countryside and still use the internet, radio, tv and I even have a car.
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  28. Trump was a great president and Biden is asleep most of the time anywhere and probably does not know where space is.
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  29. Why do people keep bring that up. 5 years of life is the minimum figure when something goes wrong. The median figure will be 25 years meaning the majority will last that long with some lasting much longer and others shorter periods. One coming down in 5 years where the others last 20 years is not that big a deal.
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  30. In low earth orbit there is an area of space of about 500 million to 3 billion square kilometers that the satellites can exist within. I do not think most people understand how large space actually is. The area of orbit of the moon around earth is about 1.8 trillion square kilometers.
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  31. Here is an interesting point for you to consider about fibre optics. While the light signal can travel at the speed of light obviously the switching of the networks is much slower than that. So there is a lot of improvement space in fibre optics as well. At the moment Starlink is being entered into space at low volumes once they can get their heavy lifting rocket systems in action they will be able to send up 400 satellites at a time. So it will take about 75 launches to really have a truly global system of satellite communications.
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  32. @John Salas That is where robotics and automation comes in. And those satellite systems will also be used to guide such systems that are out in the oceans cleaning the surface water of junk. What we see of as junk today such as plastic, rubber and metals may very well be a resource in the future for industrial materials. The next generation of biotechnology will be able to use those raw materials for various things.
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  33. Russians could set of 10000 junk events in low earth orbit and they still would not take out one Starlink Satellite. Space is really large.
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  34. It will be low latency for 99% of gamers with the 1% needing faster levels of communications as they are in twitch reaction level performances. The actual network has a potential to get latency down to about 20ms and maybe with other technology development it will be lower again.
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