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\* Mike Oldfield starts playing in the background *
u/user134450 — fractalizard
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- France bans smoking in parks, beaches and bus stops · 360 points · 41 comments
- France to boost Eutelsat stake, eying a Starlink alternative · 108 points · 3 comments
- Hungary To Use Facial Recognition to Suppress Pride March · 314 points · 21 comments
- These are the six European alternatives to Elon Musk's Starlink · 104 points · 5 comments
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Reading the wiki article reveals they used whoever was available and cheap: Soyus 2 (Russian, until 2022), LVM 3 (Indian,since 2022), Falcon 9 (USA, since 2022)
It makes sense for a company that does not build rockets to just use whats on the market.
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maybe time for CV dazzle: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13507
This is not foolproof (read the paper for details) but it can help to protect peoples identities if used correctly.
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Eutelsat
OneWeb is owned by Eutelsat and i think that is the one they refer to in the article. OneWeb satelites use 450 km - 1200 km orbits so 3 to 8 ms delay assuming the signal goes straight up and straight down again.