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		tw_wankette 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse... Starlink now has many laser crosslinks and no longer requires a base station to be in its line of sight.

pavluha 9 months ago [–]

But Starlink needs to get the traffic to/from the ground eventually, right? And those ground links having their capacity. So I think it is nice to have laser crosslinks, but they will not eliminate the base stations capacity requirements.

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