Comments on: December 29, 2022 Quick space links

By: Col Beausabre

Col Beausabre — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 01:49:44 +0000

Another one bites the dust "Vladimir Putin’s proclaimed “rocket man” became the fourth top Russian official to die under mysterious circumstances in the past seven days, RadarOnline.com has learned. Vladimir Nesterov, 74, pioneered the “world’s best” Angara rocket for Russia. He also formerly served as general director of the Khrunichev Center, a state research and production space center created to help Putin facilitate the nation’s first successful manned mission to the moon." I wonder when the nomenklatura will act to remove the Number One menace to their health

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:24:19 +0000

George C.,
There are already Starlink centers right next to server farms and data centers here in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve done many commissionings at these data centers and what attracts them here is the cheap hydro power. Grant County Washington is where Grand Coulee Dam is, the weather is mild, low tectonic activity, and it is a little over an hour away from an airport. Lots of data centers- search engines, bit-coin miners, and online sellers. Grant County PUD laid fiber to the whole county and everyone has a 1 Gig connection for $35.
The same deal over at The Dalles in Oregon, most of the data centers are near the Army Corp of Engineers Dam or over where there use to be an aluminum plant. Not only is there the dam at The Dalles, but that is the place where a lot of the generation from the other dams up the Columbia and Snake Rivers flow to the transmission lines, plus there is the DC intertie that starts there and goes down to southern California.

By: Sippin_bourbon

Sippin_bourbon — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:40:30 +0000

I was a little miffed that NASA paperwork held up RL. The monthly launch streak was broken. But then, this is a government operation.

By: George C

George C — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 04:20:52 +0000

If you have data centers near those mega-gateways then you might want to buy bandwidth on the local dark fiber the article mentions and then on the Starlink to replicate data between your centers spread out over the US, and to Europe.