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Pigalowda ◴[] No.45033827[source]
So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.
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decimalenough ◴[] No.45033872[source]
Starship will be deploying the next gen v3 satellites, which weigh about 2 tons each. A single Starship launch with 60 of these deploys more capacity than 20 launches of a Falcon 9.
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1. xeromal ◴[] No.45034471[source]
Wow, that really puts it into perspective