Comment on Chinese satellite beams data at 1Gbps, surpassing Starlink speed by 5 timesComments−trothamel9moFor context.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Technology_Demonstr...NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth.The Starlink inter-satellite laser links are 200Gbps space-to-space, and I believe the space-to-earth downlink of each Starlink V2 mini is 96 Gbps.
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For context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Technology_Demonstr...
NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth.
The Starlink inter-satellite laser links are 200Gbps space-to-space, and I believe the space-to-earth downlink of each Starlink V2 mini is 96 Gbps.