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2019-11-14 Science & Technology

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-14 02:09|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Would communicating up to a the coming mass numbers of StarLink sats release their position?

Posted by 3dc 2019-11-14 06:13|| 2019-11-14 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps. Given Musk's new Owned-by-the-CCP-plant-in-China, I'm not sure he should be trusted wtih US defense data like that.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-11-14 13:16|| 2019-11-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

#3 This would be something US intelligence agencies would be wise to look into, if we had any left, instead of Obama Administration Bureaucrats trying to frame Trump.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-11-14 13:18|| 2019-11-14 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thought.
I would suppose any time-delay-of-signal calculations would be obfuscated by multiple orbiters as a position offset device. Same, same as GPS positioning is much more accurate for military over civilian reporting. Chips just truncate trailing digits.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-14 13:51|| 2019-11-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

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