Starlink and miniaturization of the communication satellites
The dream of Elon Musk is to give every people free Internet across the world. The Starlink system can make this dream true, and a system is a group of WLAN-support stations, what are maybe hybrid operative. The communication between the satellites can be happened by using lasers and radio frequencies, and the communication between the client and satellites can happen by using the radio- or light frequencies. Using this kind of technology is possible to make a satellite-based network, which is immune to the ion and other electromagnetic radiation as well as deliberate jamming.
The satellites of tomorrow might be small-size, but they can also have multiple missions. That means that those satellites can use their radio-transmitters, and laser systems as the metering tools and radars. The ground-based lidar systems can also allow optical communication between satellites and ground stations. Optical communication tools would pass the plasma-layer, and that means that the magnetic storms of the sun don't affect those systems.
Laser-based optical systems can also replace traditional GPS very easily. The camera, what is installed to satellite would take images of the ground. And then the ground-based laser, what can be portable would be noticed by that camera. Then the satellite just resends the image, where the laser point is marked back to the screen of that system. Then the user can locate the place, by looking at the map.
The lidar is the pin-shaped laser ray, which can communicate between the satellite group and acting like a normal radio-communication tool. Satellite-based lidars can make very sharp topography maps of Earth, and they can also be used as the replacer of the radio-based communication. Only thing, that lidar needs are the frequency, what would go through the clouds.
As we see the small size communication satellites can use their transmitters and receivers also as for tracking objects from the ground. So the Starlink can also be used as GPS and radar, what can make topographic maps of the ground, and if the satellites are also equipped with small CCD-cameras, they can give images from Earth, and the thing, what those systems can do is cover large areas and even the entire Earth can be covered by those satellites, and here I must say, that the use of miniaturized CCD-cameras, integrated microchips, and sophisticated computer programs, those roles can be given to satellites, what are the size of the milk bottle.
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