PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Starlink Satellite train
View Single Post
Old 14th Aug 2021, 10:18
  #87 (permalink)  
ORAC
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Peripatetic
Posts: 17,446
Received 1,603 Likes on 735 Posts
I’m intrigued by their purchase of swarm - their tiles can cheaply be embedded in products and contain GPS.

No reason why one can’t be embedded in every car, truck, container, boats, drones or other mobile device on the planet. With GPS they could easily be used for things such as road pricing or remote control. Imagine if every airliner was automatically sending its location every 30 seconds.

Their current business plan includes. 75 data packets per month for free - but that’s just business, not technology.

Each Falcon 9 Starlink launch carries around 66 satellites at 260kg each. A Swarm SpaceBee satellite weighs 400 grams and is just 11x11x3 cm in size with up to 24 flat packed into a single deployer. How many could they deploy in a single dedicated launch?

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/spacebee-10.htm
ORAC is online now