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>IIRC adding ships and planes to the mix likely won’t make a big difference to the home/land user as they are geographically far apart.

I would think that latitude distance is irrelevant and longitude distance is everything.

A ship going across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans would have the satelites all to themselves. A ship sailing ports in the Caribbean would be in a very congested region.

Airplanes fly at a very high elevation which should allow them to access satellites covering less dense cells.



> I would think that latitude distance is irrelevant and longitude distance is everything.

Why would you think that? There's nothing special about north south directions versus east west directions.

> A ship sailing ports in the Caribbean would be in a very congested region.

Congested by what exactly? Most of the countries in the Caribbean don't have Starlink.


The nice thing about these cruise ships are that they aren't using one satellite dish per user, which massively reduces transmission overhead.


What's the backhaul for those ships though? I thought point to point transmission wasn't available yet and therefore you needed to be relatively close to the backhaul point.




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