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Starlink's Laser System is Beaming 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day (www.pcmag.com)

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SpaceX's laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions when there are no ground towers nearby (like when they're going across oceans).

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 34 points 7 months ago

That's cool but we already know if the area you are using it in becomes a warzone and "free speech absolutists" aka right wing extremists don't like whoever is using it, then it will get turned off.

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