Comments on: SpaceX requests FCC permission to expand Starlink service to trucks, ships, & planes https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-requests-fcc-permission-to-expand-starlink-service-to-trucks-ships-planes/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mrsizer https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-requests-fcc-permission-to-expand-starlink-service-to-trucks-ships-planes/#comment-1116205 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:18:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73830#comment-1116205 And the FCC should not block SpaceX just to protect them.
which means that they will probably do so. Add “and to spite Elon” to the mix and it seems almost guaranteed.

I’d offer it to the rest of the world and let the US (and anyone else who doesn’t approve) live without it. That can even be justified as “progressive”: Allow the third world (can we still say that?) to leapfrog over all the intermediate steps, much as has happened with cell phones vs land lines.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-requests-fcc-permission-to-expand-starlink-service-to-trucks-ships-planes/#comment-1116155 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:05:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73830#comment-1116155 Oh, they should have kept LORAN for ships

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-requests-fcc-permission-to-expand-starlink-service-to-trucks-ships-planes/#comment-1116153 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:01:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73830#comment-1116153 I miss the old telegraph poles and all the wires like I miss the chatter of newsrooms. My Dad worked for the L and N. I think some lines were still in use in the early 7o’s…hydrogen making nickel iron batteries in railroads look to make a comeback as battolysers.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-requests-fcc-permission-to-expand-starlink-service-to-trucks-ships-planes/#comment-1116082 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:31:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73830#comment-1116082 Locomotives already have a forest of antenae on their roof, including GPS, data link (to monitor the unit’s mechanical condition), voice, Positive Train Control, etc. See Burlington Northern Santa Fe example

https://www.railwayage.com/cs/ptc/bnsf-ptc-were-ready-but-youre-not/

(and to think when my dad worked his way through college by goin’ railroadin’, the crews communicated via whistles and waving flags or lanterns. with the dispatcher runnin’ the railroad via a train sheet and telegraph key)

Since they are mobile and can operate in pretty remote areas, such as the mountains and deserts of the West, put down the railroads as possible customers to reduce their line side infrastructure.

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