FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars
The FAQ on Starlink is pretty silly (or head-in-the-sand pretending competition doesn&#x27;t exist):<p>&gt; Starlink is designed to provide consumer broadband services to large, fixed terminals (in the satellite industry, this is known as Fixed Satellite Service).<p>1. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll make a smaller Dishy exactly as soon as they figure out how.
2. Fixed location is a beta restriction to make writing the <i>software</i> easier. Walk before you run.<p>&gt; While there has been talk of limited use of Starlink for point-to-point connectivity, such as for high-speed securities trading, [...] it is not a part of their consumer-facing services, nor is it known to be possible with their consumer hardware.<p>Satellite-to-satellite links have nothing to do with the ground equipment, and the ground equipment won&#x27;t even know.<p>&gt; Starlink terminals are uniquely identified on the network, and can be easily geolocated by the network<p>Silly concept. Of course &quot;the network&quot; needs to know 1) which satellite is overhead 2) where to aim the response beam, from that satellite.