Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Oh, so that's why my internet went out for 4 hours yesterday. RIP.
Starlinks are in too low an orbit to cause Kessler Syndrome.
All they can do is pollute the atmosphere we sometimes breath in even more.
but they pollute the night sky visually and that's nearly as bad.
Is that accurate though? Assume a satellite is in a decaying orbit (thus too low to contribute to Kessler syndrome on its own) and another satellite is in a different orbit eccentricity-wise but they both collide. Are we certain that none of the pieces from the collision would acquire enough speed to become boloids that contribute to Kessler syndrome?
Time to go down the rabbit hole that is orbital mechanics for me again. Byeeee lol
Edit: looks like the lowest orbit for starlink's first shell is at 550km which is very much above VLEO and would definitely be a factor in Kessler Syndrome.
Most starlink satellites are set to deorbit themselves upon failure to avoid this. However the de orbiting could still fail and then it should take about a year or so to deorbit itself?
So it looks like there is a low possibility of it initiating Kessler syndrome. But it's not negligible.
Learn something new every day, thanks!
Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I'm boycotting Musk companies as best I can
I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.
good hope it stays broken forever
Thank you so much ! /s Come and join me where the options are many and the price is so cheap. /s /s
If you'd like to experience what it's like to access the internet sans Starlink, perhaps you could just throttle your modem to 8 or even 10 Mbps. Yes? No? Then consider how lucky you are, and have some empathy for those of us who have little or no alternative.
Your options are limited not by random angry dude on the Internet, but by deliberate and calculated lack of development conspired between legislators and telecoms. Starlink will hit the limits imposed by physics and geometry, and then will get worse and worse the more people sign up.
push and advocate for municipal and community owned broadband
"I know millions of people use their service because it's the only real option they have, but because it's associated with this one guy I don't like, they can all eat a dick!"
This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn't the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.
I'll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
GOOD
Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It's easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don't have a reasonable alternative.
HugesNet has low throughput but it's pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
I'm sorry, but not even having a Musk backed product as my only alternative could get me to use HugesNet's antifunctional service. Literally dialup is better.
That's what I hear, but my experience is different
My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn't even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.
It's been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That's a lot better than my old DSL provider.
I hate T-Mobile, but I really hate Elon Musk. So while I'm not happy for T-Mobile, I do enjoy watching Musk suffer in any way whatsoever.
In a fight between Elon Musk and traditional telecoms, I'm cheering for the fight
Musk yes, but there are quite a few Ukrainian servicemen not happy, I think.