I agree that if the objective was to build a telecommunications business, then the design of Starlink makes very little sense. But that was not the objective. www.techpolicy.press/in-the-twent...
techpolicy.pressIn the Twenty-first Century, Space is the New Railroad for Billionaire AmbitionsBillionaires are playing a game of orbital Monopoly, writes Janet Vertesi.
Starlink would have been better served by putting up ~220 much larger satelites instead of thousands of smaller ones.
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