[ec109685]

Surprised dedicated ultra low bandwidth satellites are the way to go when developing a service like this versus piggybacking on something like StarLink.

[jcims]

This was a separate company originally. In this case the RF protocol is completely different (~140MHz vs 12+GHz) as well so you'd have to add hardware to the StarLink satellite to support this (which obv. could be done moving forward)

[jjtheblunt]

It is SpaceX also, so presumably in some regard piggybacks on StarLink.

[girvo]

No. It was purchased by SpaceX last year, but uses their own hardware.

[panick21_]

They will defiantly unify this stuff more over time.

[girvo]

Definitely, it’s on the roadmap I believe, but today they haven’t. We use Swarm in production for some of our remote industrial IoT deployments

[jjtheblunt]

No? SpaceX purchased it, so it's theirs now. They may for instance be using shared ground network hardware and software post acquisition. Do you have reason to think otherwise?

[girvo]

I can’t talk about some stuff unfortunately, we’re partnered with them, but they’re not using any of that yet as far as we have been told.

We’re eagerly waiting for them to, as it should increase what we can do with their product!