It is operating only when it can be pointed towards Earth, while also avoiding the Sun, which did not happen during the flyby.
The laser is on one side of Orion, and when that side is not oriented towards Earth for various reasons, the optical communications cannot be used.
For continuous communications, at least when there is no interposed body, like the Moon, multiple lasers located around Orion would be needed to ensure coverage. When by the far side of the Moon, a relay orbiting around the Moon would be needed.
Doesn't that require line of sight with limited receivers available? Maybe the current positioning is preventing it until the constellation changes. With the constellation that is the craft in respect to the two ground stations in a narrow patch of the US. I could not find anything about throughput rates except for the theoretical maximum but I also suspect that max is only in LEO.
i heard mention of 100 megabit. they downloaded 50GB of data the night after the flyby. they probably keep downloading as much as they can. and they still need to sift through all that to find the pictures worth publishing. they could do a data dump, but that's not interesting for the general public. the stuff is coming. slowly.
Like another poster mentioned, I use Orion on my iPad with ublock origin installed as an extension.
It’s a really great browser, only a few bugs here and there.
We did sailing charters growing up and had one of these on the boat, I was in charge of it and the sound & feel of the CH-CHUNK is seared into my memories like nothing else. We never got any declines, but I always wondered how that reconciliation process actually worked out.
We never got any declines, but I always wondered how that reconciliation process actually worked out.
IIRC, the merchant gets paid if hitting a credit limit or similar decline reason. The card holder then gets hit with a financial penalty (usurious interest rates, or extra charges). If the card has been stolen, it ends up in a big phonebook-like book for offline use (otherwise the merchant just called it in for big purchases).
I remember buying books at a shop in Denver in the late 80s and watching the proprietor look to see if my card was in the big book of stolen credit cards numbers before he ran my card through the kachunka machine.
You didn't get any declines because you didn't ask for any approvals :)
If you mean chargebacks: I believe imprinters had card issuer liability for the longest time, at least as long as the transaction was under the (network-defined) "floor limit".
So if these were relatively low value transactions, the bank would simply not have any standing to decline payment.
Super neat - I did something similar on a lark to enable useful "web browsing" over 1200 baud packet - I have Starlink back at my camp but might be a few miles away, so as long as I can get line of sight I can Google up stuff, albeit slow. Worked well but I never really productionalized it beyond some weekend tinkering.
This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to update when you tweak a data model, all you'll get is headcount sprawl and deadlock to the moon.
I'm a huge fan of migrating to microservices as a secondary outcome of revisiting your component boundaries, but just moving to separate repos & artifacts so we can all deploy independently is a recipe for pain.
Network hop isn't needed if you're deploying your microservices correctly. So you can make pod groups inside of kubernetes and application that depends on another can call that lightweight container contained in that pod group. Pods inherently know the other is there in their group it has some or like network call without traversing hardware.
Same dream here - they work very interesting problems at very interesting scale, but I can see 3-4x the comp while working from anywhere? Not even a chance. I do sometimes fantasize about making a career shift when the cash comp isn't that important to me and the kids are out of the house, but as of now I value afternoon coffee breaks with my kids just too darn much.
Maybe it's not operating as described yet?
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