It might be minor market, but it will have a big impact. And it isn’t that small, over 11M population.That seems like a very minor potential market.
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It might be minor market, but it will have a big impact. And it isn’t that small, over 11M population.That seems like a very minor potential market.
It's all about spreading the fixed costs across more customers. Every country added absorbs some of the fixed cost and helps the overall profitability.That seems like a very minor potential market.
Your coverage gaps are goneI'll throw a couple more at you. Look at the circled single cell in Central Washington I have marked. I know it because I drive through it occasionally. Very rural. Yes, there's a tiny little gas station/village but it's mostly forest/desert. Why no service yet at all, when all of the similar unpopulated areas around that single cell have service? Is it because practically no one lives there? But the cell just to the north is just as unpopulated.
As for Idaho, the three stacked "waitlist" cells (top one circled is mine) have maybe 1/100 the density of the area south of us and west of Boise that also is waitlisted. If I use the simulator, we all seem to be using the same ground stations and satellites.
I go for the administrative over-simplification or "it takes programmer time to set the satellites up to prioritize sat time for a given cell and we haven't gotten around to it yet" sort of thing.
But I don't know. It's interesting to speculate.
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Guess it wasn't about defense, then.
Wow... that chart shows a 6X decrease in $/Gb of total sat bandwidth per launch by the time the V2 Starship versions launch.
Ah ok.. so we now have some official word on this. So it does appear to be dliberate. I wonder if those de-orbiting are not functioning well enough to remain, or if a couple were planned to be sacrificial in order to test out the sats with their new architecture/thrusters all the way thorough decommissioning.They are testing V2 before raising them through or above the ISS altitude. Some are being deorbited.
People all over are getting this email now
*sob*People all over are getting this email now
*sob*
And here east of the Mississippi, I'm about to pay more per month for my in-reality-residentalRVroam last-of-the-bandwidth service...
But seriously, @dhanson865 how did you get to the hardware and coverage selection options?
If you have an existing account with service you have to go through a bunch of hoops to switch types.Oh, that is weird. It works from a new tab, but if I'm logged in (by going from the app), the address field is supressed and it jumps straight to cart with the default configuration.
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(To be sung to the melody of Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band)7 years ago today the first successful orbital class drone ship landing (paving way to the first orbital class reuse)
remember this staggered line from Minnesota down to Texas? The pic above captures part of it, the pic below is now with the red line free handed about were the old jagged line was.