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Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack

183 points · 182 comments · giuliomagnifico

yanis_t · 1790247676 · focus · HN ↗
For anyone interested, there’s another part of the Starlink besides the satellites and your dish - ground stations (gateways) [].
These are the large clusters of antennas that communicate with the satellites and connect the Starlink network to the Internet on Earth. Looks like one of these was set on fire.
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1. chinathrow · 1790248018 · focus · HN ↗
  Are they required to have precise locations listed?
  1. embedding-shape · 1790248630 · focus · HN ↗
    How would you know you live close enough to one for a physical link with it otherwise? I guess they could put "General 10km area here" but would still be kind of bad for people living on the opposite end of the "general area".
  2. toast0 · 1790248940 · focus · HN ↗
    In many jurisdictions, you need a license to operate a teleport, and the applications are public and require a precise location.
    There's a lot of RF emissions right there.
    someonebaggy · 1790260745 · focus · HN ↗
    and yes, they are actually called teleports, that's not a typo
  3. sschueller · 1790250100 · focus · HN ↗
    I believe many of these sites do not belong to Space X but are rented by companies offering such services. So they uplink for other companies as well and deal with regulatory stuff etc.
  4. numpad0 · 1790251501 · focus · HN ↗
    these seem to be just operator hq locations, not necessarily the station street addresses. but yeah, the locations would be public information.

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