Starlink

[riptides]

After the successful flight of the SN8 prototype yesterday it should help the rollout of Starlink mid 2022 to stay on schedule. They need to get up 1000's of more satellites and Starship I think can launch 240 at a time vs the 60 at a time currently.

SpaceX Starship SN8 explodes on landing after test flight | Science | The Guardian

Interesting, I did not think that prototype to be earmarked for Starlink hauls.

 

[Diggin It]

After the successful flight of the SN8 prototype yesterday

SpaceX Starship SN8 explodes on landing

Must be the Murray definition of 'successful'.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Interesting, I did not think that prototype to be earmarked for Starlink hauls.

Correct. Its only task was successful executed yesterday. The next few days will be dangerous as they defuel it and cut it up with cutting torches.

 

[riptides]

Correct. Its only task was successful executed yesterday. The next few days will be dangerous as they defuel it and cut it up with cutting torches.

You must be privy to something we are not. Defuel what? And there should not be too many big pieces left from what I saw. LOL.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Must be the Murray definition of 'successful'.

Did you watch the entire flight test?

 

[Diggin It]

You must be privy to something we are not. Defuel what? And there should not be too many big pieces left from what I saw. LOL.

They think a bit different in Murray.

What Elon The Wonder Boy needs is a big broom.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

You must be privy to something we are not. Defuel what? And there should not be too many big pieces left from what I saw. LOL.

: ) Kind of killed a flock of birds with one stone?

 

[riptides]

Did you watch the entire flight test?

The goal was to reach altitude with new booster rockets. That was a success.

The landing however, resulted in a catastrophic explosion.

If the flight vehicle is destroyed in a flight test, well, IMHO, it is not a successful flight test.

 

[kcflhrc]

It Defueled in a hurry

 

[aczlan]

You can certainly have slow speeds with fiber just as you can with any other technology. But when you said residential fiber is shared between a group of homes, in my world, doing FTTH for a living, this is just not true. You can have a bottle neck in a network anywhere. Maybe other providers do fiber differently than we do. But when I install a home on fiber it is not a shared connection in anyway. Now when you have SLA's, service level agreements with businesses, that is typically a dedicated copper or fiber circuit, in that regards, I suppose you could call it non shared? Probably not the best wording. However, with my company anyway, if you are paying for 940 mb, which is our gig service, 940 sym, up and down, I run a test with test gear that verifies that speed and I have to turn in the results through an app. It better **** sure run 940 or I'm on the phone with provisioning asking why.

The fiber however goes back to a central location which has a switch and a uplink to the next hop.
If you have 30 houses each with a 100mbps connection which all go to a office that has a 2000mbps connection to the next hop and all of those houses are maxing out their connection, when the remaining 10 jump on, or they will all be rate limited to 66mb by the next hop.
Yes, you will be able to verify 100mb to the office, but the internet speed will only be 66mb if everyone is maxing out their connections at the same time.

Aaron Z