Starlink revisions, Nov 2018

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to Handley's simulations whenever Starlink latency comes up, as the best visualization of orbits and why laser links could beat fiber over long distances.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Mark Handley

Topic

starlink network latency

Format

explainer

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• this guy made an excellent youtube video modeling and visualizing the satellite orbits, the network routing paths across them, and the resulting latencies: [VIDEO] NYC to London on the current internet is 76ms, he shows it across starlink's updated plans as working out to around …

• The FCC filing has a lot of good technical details on the deployment and frequency usage. Additionally, Mark Handley has a good primer on it. It may kill actual east-west terrestrial traffic due to latency improvements: [VIDEO] North-South will still be terrestrial.

• Here's some great visualizations of the orbits and an explanation of what it means that the orbits are optimized for the northern hemisphere. (This confused me at first since obviously any orbit has to go just as far south as it does north of the …