It is completely normal for a business to experience a cash crunch during its growth phase.
I have not been following Starlink, but I did get a chance to witness a chain of Starlink satellites pass overhead one evening. I as very surprised that they are not outfitted with intersatellite communication, and the efficiency issues with getting the larger models into orbit is also a surprise.
The commercial (and secret) opportunities from having such a network are enormous. Take streaming and video conferencing. They can potentially be a single network end-to-end, and therefore employ IP multicast (or a proprietary protocol even more optimized for their network) to massively save network resources. Meanwhile, their terrestrial competitors will need to offer some big platform.
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It is completely normal for a business to experience a cash crunch during its growth phase.
I have not been following Starlink, but I did get a chance to witness a chain of Starlink satellites pass overhead one evening. I as very surprised that they are not outfitted with intersatellite communication, and the efficiency issues with getting the larger models into orbit is also a surprise.
The commercial (and secret) opportunities from having such a network are enormous. Take streaming and video conferencing. They can potentially be a single network end-to-end, and therefore employ IP multicast (or a proprietary protocol even more optimized for their network) to massively save network resources. Meanwhile, their terrestrial competitors will need to offer some big platform.