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		uoaei on Feb 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of... The quoted number is only for inter-satellite laser links, not for other methods of information transmission.

bagels on Feb 1, 2024 [–]

Most of the traffic is probably just bounced off the satellite down to the nearby ground station still.

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