Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Photos of SpaceX’s Starlink Prototype Ground Station Antennas
June 22nd, 2020Via: Reddit User darkpenguin22: Prototype Starlink terminals – Merrillan, WI More: SpaceX Starlink Antennas Spied at Starship Factory for First Time
Trump Team Prepares $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan to Spur Economy
June 16th, 2020Via: Reuters: The Trump administration is preparing an up to $1 trillion infrastructure package focused on transportation projects as part of its push to spur the world’s largest economy back to life, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The Department of Transportation’s preliminary version reserves most funds for projects such as roads […]
Starlink Will Cause Large Change in Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration
June 15th, 2020Oil companies use tape to store information collected from reflection seismology. A lot of tape. A lot of bulky, slow, expensive tape. Starlink will allow for the fast movement of terabytes of data from remote exploration vessels to cloud storage for analysis. Currently, the data moves by crates in helicopters and trucks. Via: BigMarker: For […]
FCC Has “Serious Doubts” that SpaceX Can Deliver Latencies Under 100ms
June 14th, 2020In the darkest days of my Internet connectivity hell in rural NZ, I had to use IPstar, which had latencies as high as 1000ms+. Yep. Not a typo. Over a second. How is SpaceX going to improve on that by a couple orders of magnitude? Operating the Starlink constellation in low earth orbit is part […]
Pentagon Official: FCC Decision on 5G Threatens GPS, National Security
May 8th, 2020Via: The Hill: Pentagon officials on Wednesday criticized the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to allow Virginia-based satellite communications company Ligado to deploy a nationwide mobile network, saying that it could have adverse effects on GPS signals that are integral to the military’s operations. “GPS has also long been a critical technology that has […]
Starlink 6, Two Days After Launch
April 30th, 2020Via: Sebastian Voltmer: Shooting the satellite batches: Starlink 6 two days after launch! from Sebastian Voltmer on Vimeo.
Bankruptcy Looms Over U.S. Energy Industry, from Oil Fields to Pipelines
April 22nd, 2020Just print more trillions. Via: Reuters: U.S. shale producers, refiners and pipeline companies are scrambling for cash and face likely restructuring as they struggle under heavy debt loads and a dual supply/demand shock in the worst crisis the oil industry has faced.
Perspectives on the Pandemic with Professor Knut Wittkowski
April 10th, 2020How many people with MDs and PhD have to call bullshit before the plug gets pulled on the Internet? Oh. I forgot. It’ll be because of the conspiracy theorists: Via: Journeyman Pictures: “Social distancing and lockdown is the absolutely worst way to deal with an airborne respiratory virus.”
Pentagon’s New Satellite Constellation Part of Plan to Link Everything on the Battlefield
April 7th, 2020The Pentagon is already planning to use Starlink, Air Force laying groundwork for future military use of commercial megaconstellations: The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office in December awarded SpaceX a $28 million contract to test over the next three years different ways in which the military might use the company’s Starlink broadband […]
Dark Journalist: Blackouts and Bunkers! COG Deep State Plan for Crisis Takeover
April 4th, 2020Via: Dark Journalist:
