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10Gb Starlink for Royal Carribean Ships

by paulsutter on 9/13/25, 9:06 PM with 8 comments

• by idiotsecant on 9/13/25, 10:48 PM

  Pretty impressive. What is the laser link bandwidth between starlink satellites? Can any starlink node also be a relay station? I don't know much about the network, I guess I didn't really realize that links between satellites was a thing now, I thought it required that a node have LOS to you and a base station for the system to work.

  (Edit) According to this (old) link there's something over 40pb of laser link traffic every day.

  https://hackaday.com/2024/02/05/starlinks-inter-satellite-la...

• by drnick1 on 9/13/25, 10:57 PM

  Isn't 10Gbps for an entire ship kind of very slow?