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How will Amazon's constellation differentiate itself from SpaceX's and OneWeb's?
The New York Times' Amazon Satellites Add to Astronomers’ Worries About the Night Sky says:
Much of the attention on these strings of satellites has been placed on the prolific launches of SpaceX and ...
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Did the Starlink precursor Tintin satellites ever talk to each other? If so, how? Did they demonstrate an optical communications link?
Tintin A and B are the first two exploratory and testing spacecraft for SpaceX's Starlink program.
It looks like they are in very similar orbits in both space and time, and are probably that way so ...
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What technology will SpaceX's StarLink satellites most likely use for sat-to-sat linking?
The question How does SpaceX plan to make money with StarLink Broadband? has got me thinking about how the satellites will link to each other.
Wikipedia says it's something greater than 10,000 GHz and ...
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What kind of power is referred to in "the...most powerful all-electric propulsion communications satellite ever produced"
The Florida Today article On second flight, SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 'brute' of a satellite from Cape describes the upcoming SpaceX launch of SES-12. Next to this tiny image of (presumably) ...
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Does a low-orbit communication network drive a sustainable launch market?
With SpaceX recent announcement of a huge satellite network in low earth orbit, I was wondering if such a network would motivate a sustainable large-scale launch capacity, i.e. a increase of scale of ...
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