ck231m agoHN ↗this should end wellor a whole new technology invented other than radio waves for data transmissionare any satellites using laser downlink yet or is line-of-sight too temperamental with weather and planes?
cheschire24m agoHN ↗Let’s launch hard drives back and forth between earth and LEO. Like sneakernet in space.
chris_va19m agoHN ↗never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes reentering the atmosphere
ck219m agoHN ↗railgun microSDbut seriously, the first spy satellites used to drop film rolls and they had a crazy way for the military to track and catch them via planes* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
pixl9719m agoHN ↗Been there, done that.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)They'd drop their film back down to earth.
GolfPopper17m agoHN ↗U.S. spy satellites were returning film payloads to Earth as late as 1986:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
pixl9720m agoHN ↗I mean isn't space X testing satellites with sat to sat lasers?In that case you don't need to ground lasers, you just beam the data where you have unjammed communications with the cost of higher latency.
LorenDB14m agoHN ↗More than testing. That is their primary on-orbit link method for Starlink satellites as of 2.5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...
mosura16m agoHN ↗The British seem reduced to their historic state of piracy to restore the empire:“disrupting, degrading and denying hostile threats in space”Not even pretending to be building and defending anything positive in space.
mgaldys413m agoHN ↗In terms of international game theory, this is entirely expected. No action would be the anomaly.
this should end well
or a whole new technology invented other than radio waves for data transmission
are any satellites using laser downlink yet or is line-of-sight too temperamental with weather and planes?
Let’s launch hard drives back and forth between earth and LEO. Like sneakernet in space.
never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes reentering the atmosphere
railgun microSD
but seriously, the first spy satellites used to drop film rolls and they had a crazy way for the military to track and catch them via planes
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
Been there, done that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
They'd drop their film back down to earth.
U.S. spy satellites were returning film payloads to Earth as late as 1986:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
I mean isn't space X testing satellites with sat to sat lasers?
In that case you don't need to ground lasers, you just beam the data where you have unjammed communications with the cost of higher latency.
More than testing. That is their primary on-orbit link method for Starlink satellites as of 2.5 years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming...
Neutrinos
The British seem reduced to their historic state of piracy to restore the empire:
“disrupting, degrading and denying hostile threats in space”
Not even pretending to be building and defending anything positive in space.
In terms of international game theory, this is entirely expected. No action would be the anomaly.