>>25603799
>Ukrainians think that Elon has sold starlink access data to Russians.
>every time they turn starlink on instantly hot target for Russian attacks.
>It should not be real to detect starlinks unless you have direct access to satellite data
>>25604002
>You don't think the transmissions are detectable even if it's a directional antenna? How clean can it be, it's civilian grade equipment.
Civilian grade equipment with some of the most advanced phased array antennas on the planet. The side lobes are really small, so unwanted emittions of the direction they're aiming at are really small.
But ofc like anything, there still are emissions to detect. You just need more sensitive equipment to detect it.
Russians have a lot of electronic detection and warfare equipment, they sort of specialised into it way harder than NATO ever did. They are able to track starlink, just not as well as other emissions, and likely they were bad at it in the beginning and now after they had time to adapt, got better at it.
I don't think elon did anything, this is just ukrainians being dumb and russians improving something.
>>25602325
>Question from Tech pros: Is starlink any different from other providers of satellite internet? Or is it yet another bullshit marketing for something that already exists like Tesla with electric cars
There are like 11.000 satellites in space, 7000 are Starlink satellites.
The 2nd biggest communication constellation after Starlink has 400 satellites.
What the fuck do you think.
Ontop of that starlink satellites are the most advanced ones, have the highest bandwidth, and fly on the lowest orbits. So they have the best latency as well.
Nobody can really replace Starlink. Some can offer satellite internet but with less clients and less bandwidth with higher latency.
Also probably easier to track terminals since satellites are in higher orbits, so more energy needed to talk to them, and starlink had more time to refine their terminals and satellites for lower power consumption.
They even did their own custom phased array antenna tech, usually only companies developing military grade radars do that.
It's criminal that europe didn't build a reusable rocket to be able to match SpaceX launch cadence to launch stuff to space cheaply. Without that ability nobody can realistically match Starlink capabilities.
Internal SpaceX launch for Starship is estimated to cost them 5-10 Million. They charge other customers 60 million for a launch, and are still the cheapest provider ...