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by xwdv 2133 days ago
Why not? The money is green and if SpaceX is convinced they could still beat a competitor with Starlink might as well make some extra dough?

If Starlink can't beat Kupier they're dead anyway those satellites will go up eventually.
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haggy 2133 days ago
> if SpaceX is convinced they could still beat a competitor

That's not really the point though. Amazon is a fierce (and many times dirty) competitor to be up against.

If you're competing directly with AWS then you need to take every advantage you can get. If you're trying to build a global satellite network to provide internet access and not having launch capabilities will delay AWS long enough to get a foothold in the market then you take it.

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ethbro 2133 days ago
T-minus X: "Starlink: offering free transit to Azure & GCP."
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lozaning 2132 days ago
Eventually someone's going to launch an orbital data center to cut down on round trip latency. You think AWS bandwidth is expensive now lol.
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ethbro 2132 days ago
Thought occurred to me, but I imagine heat dispersion would be cost-prohibitive vs terrestrial options.

I suppose {sat -> orbital DC -> sat} (latency) or {sat -> orbital DC processing -> ground} (transmission bandwidth) are the primary use cases? Maybe security?

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