• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Guy is being a little too trigger happy with this bait and switch but it should still surprise absolutely no one. Starlink with it‘s thousands of satellites, requiring hundreds of rocket launches is ridiculously expensive to operate and can‘t hope to compete with fiber price wise.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      the reason why this is happening now is many countries are launching alternatives. Telesat Canada launches it’s first LEO in December, …but off a Falcon 9.