[ackbar03]

> Their eventual goal is to allow communication directly between the satellites

I guess they'll have to though if they want to make it more scale-able? They satellites will always have to be up in space, but with communication between them they won't have to build ground stations everywhere. Plus ground stations themselves have to have good internet connectivity

[KiwiJohnno]

Another huge potential market for Starlink will be internet links to ships at sea, or aircraft. When far from land there would be no ground station in range of the satellites overhead, and laser crosslink is the only way to make this work.

[sliken]

Or skip real time, and allow a store and forward setup for, imagine if you could send/receive a few MB of a few times an hour.