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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)

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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Interesting, I had satellite Internet through explorer and only the heaviest of blizzards would cut access to the internet. Had an uptime of probably 99% through the year. Wonder why satellites further away wouldn't have a problem with rain but starlink ones do.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Different wave lengths.

Shorter wave lengths are more affected by rain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I would hazard a guess that they were running a geostationary setup rather than Starlinks LEO approach.