India Today
BY India Today Tech – New Delhi – September 8, 2021 – UPDATED: September 8, 2021 11:14 IST
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a recent tweet has said that in the case of satellite-broadband, Starlink, there will be no need for ground stations everywhere. This will help the service achieve data transfer close to the speed of light, possibly even faster. Musk was replying to a Twitter user and internet rocket scientist Scott Manley, who highlighted the requirement of downlink stations in broadband services to which Musk replied saying that the Starlink satellites launching in the next 4 to 6 months will have inter-satellite laser links, so no local downlink will be required.