So Hughes-Net & ViSat aren’t a thing ? They’re satellite internet companies probably based in Europe, but I could be wrong. (I probably butchered the names)
Also, how rich of Elon, a man whose existence is propped up by government funding to bark & bite the hands that feed them
Both seem to be US companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_(American_company), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Network_Systems
The irony of elon calling anyone else “small” is hilarious…
Rubio shouted at Musk, so poor Elon took it out on a foreign country’s government official and called him “little man”
Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.
“easily”
Disgusting. Why the FUCK would you talk to our allies this way? The guy is a polish government official.. (I mean obviously I know why, Elon is a megalomaniac).
“Small man”??? WTF. I hate it.
You wouldn’t talk to your allies that way. Which once again makes it clear that the current US administration no longer sees Europe as allies.
America as whole sees you as meatshields against the Russian bear
Don’t let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.
Why is starlink being used, do you know?
Starlink has enough uplink to be able to handle live video streams and a latency low enough to do this with simple tools.
I’m not sure if that still happens, but I’ve seen some pictures of Ukrainian command bunkers literally getting drone feeds using discord screen share.
It’s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).
My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.
They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.
Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.
The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.
Now, I don’t know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that’s only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.
I think you’d notice half a second even just browsing the Web.
If America was a real country this guy would’ve immediately been removed from any and all companies he runs.
Does SpaceX not have a board?
They’re all his pawns
SpaceX bggest customer by far is the US gvernment. Obviously that is run by Musk, so they will not fire him.
But why? Why did t NASA do this. Instead government funded it and a private citizen controls it and gets all the benefits.
Hubris. This is hubris.
Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don’t fuck around.
Oligarchs used to act the part, and have the appearance of being “classy”.
Now Oligarchs are just a bunch of 4chan users.
Wtf is: “Be quiet, small man”
That’s not an elegant way of speaking.
These people are supposed to be “upper class”?
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This post has more upvotes on Lemmy than Reddit
Let my add one more then!
TBH I think any more low orbit telecom satellite arrays than we already have are just going to become a huge problem in the following decades.
Starlink is already being a problem currently, and it’s not even fully deployed
This has been commented before.
Starlink flies at a very low altitude, meaning relatively high atmospheric drag, and a very short period of time before their sats deorbit if they go dead, less than ten years.
It’s nowhere near the problem everyone makes it out to be.
Until we find out that not nearly as much burns up on re-entry as assumed and they’ve been raining carcinogens for decades.
I didn’t say it wasn’t a problem at all.
Official statemens claim they run for about 5 years, deorbit anywhere, and do NOT always burn up in reentry.
It’s time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.
It’s called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).
Here’s one: https://www.skydsl.eu/en-DE/Personal/Satellite-internet/Tariffs/Private/Overview
Seems to be about half as expensive as Starlink. 700ms latency though. So you won’t be gaming skydsl.
But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!
/s
“My starlink system”. He’s literally a walking, talking “you made this? I made this” meme.
I get what you’re saying, but I refer to my car as…my car. I didn’t turn a wrench in its construction, nor did I design it, but it’s still mine.
Except for the fact that he doesn’t make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles…
I reread and still don’t see what you’re quoting.
“I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army.”
It’s the first sentence of the quoted tweet.
My bad.
The interior, initial Musk tweet. It’s a snippet in the middle of a sentence.
Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.
