Reminder that an alternative for Starlink is needed, exchange between Musk and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Reminder that an alternative for Starlink is needed, exchange between Musk and the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
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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
The main European actor is called Eutelsat. They say they can provide a similar quality of service in Ukraine as Starlink. They have GEO sats and a LEO constellation of around 650 satellites.
Both seem to be US companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_(American_company), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Network_Systems
They use higher orbiting satellites which come with some trade-offs, lower speeds higher latency and more easily disrupted by weather events. When they say there is no competition they mean in terms of what you get and as much as I hate the man he isn't wrong there is nothing to compete with starlink right now
So we just bring the satellites closer
That's pretty much the whole problem that SpaceX solved with Starlink