{"id":3504,"date":"2019-06-15T19:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T23:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T14:21:36","slug":"40-why-spacex-is-making-starlink-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3504","title":{"rendered":"Why SpaceX is Making Starlink &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why SpaceX is Making Starlink\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giQ8xEWjnBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK, so now I get why Starlink is so interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10B$US vs 150B$US for the switch to 5G (and that might just be the fiber build out, no hardware at each end&#8230; need to re-watch to know for sure.).<\/li>\n<li>done in 10 years, probably in limited form to very spendy customers (stock trading advantages of milliseconds = $$$$)<\/li>\n<li>expects revenue to exceed NASA&#8217;s budget.<\/li>\n<li>expects monthly cost for residential users to be subsidized by very expensive services to extreme time-sensitive users (stock trading is the obvious first adapters)<\/li>\n<li>residential user need a pizza box sized, thin enough to mount on a vehicle, attic mounted, 200$US<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ummmm&#8230;. if I owned physical plant, or wires in the ground, it might be time to sell.\u00a0 But what to I know?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; OK, so now I get why Starlink is so interesting: 10B$US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[104,97,201],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-decent","tag-elon-musk","tag-starlink-et-al"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}