• @[email protected]
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    252 days ago

    This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

    Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?

    This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

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      442 days ago

      You’re off ten fold. They have thousands. Around 5000 with a planned 12k after gen 3 has been fully deployed. It’s definitely a “let the intern push to prod” type of scenario by numbers alone.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.