Youmei Zhou, a SpaceX engineer who hosted the company’s launch webcast Monday night, said the new Starlink satellites are a “huge leap forward” in technology.

“Most satellites don’t speak to each other directly,” she said. “Instead, they use radio frequency communications with a ground station to relay communications between satellites. The Starlink satellites launching today will be testing fully operational optical inter-satellite links, otherwise known as space lasers, to provide direct communications between the satellites without ground stations acting as an intermediary.”

The laser links could also reduce the network’s latency, or the time it takes for a signal to travel between destinations.
好像仍然处于测试阶段，激光链路
这次应该只带了前后同轨方向的，没有左右交叉的激光终端
【 在 wuspd 的大作中提到: 】
: 51个带星间连路
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