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US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit (www.reuters.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A geosynchronous satellite makes much more sense for those use cases.

[–] br3d 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those are much much higher up, which introduces a lot of signal latency. The Starlink types are low down, which makes the Comms faster (and also means they keep burning up in the atmosphere)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but the cost of low latency is thousands of satellites that burn up in the atmosphere, need to be continuously launched, are a catastrophe for optical and radio astronomy and crowd LEO, reducing available space and increasing collision risk. All for a barely scalable system.

It's not worth it. If you want low latency get a cable run or talk to a ground based antenna.