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Have they incorporated the laser links into prod on their sats yet? I thought that they were launching sats with them yet hadn’t successfully routed traffic yet through them in prod which is why they have a limitation to near the coast.



Lasers have been in prod for months.


Yes, the open sea connections wouldn't work at all without them. But I think they're still a minority of the fleet and it'll take a while to eventually upgrade to full coverage.


We have >8000 lasers in orbit on starlinks right now

https://x.com/starlink/status/1706719043460514101




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