Elon Musk wants to put Wi-Fi on the Moon.
Yesterday his SpaceX team confirmed they are exploring it.
Same laser tech Starlink already runs in orbit, extended across 384,000 kilometers, terminating in broadband on the lunar surface.
Starlink already runs nearly 10,000 of these inter-satellite lasers right now.
Each sustains 100 gigabits per second. Together they move 42 petabytes of data every day.
This is not a research paper. It is a production system being pointed at the Moon.
The hard part is distance. LEO satellites sit a few hundred kilometers apart.
The Moon sits 384,000 kilometers away. Keeping a coherent laser locked on a target that far is a different engineering problem entirely.
If it works, NASA's Artemis missions get a data pipeline beyond anything currently possible with deep space radio.
He is basically building the internet in space.
What does space stop being remote when there is gigabit Wi-Fi at every step of it?
Source: @Starlink, @SpaceX
India doesn't have a manufacturing problem. India has a respect problem.
We respect the guy who cracked CAT more than the guy who can build an engine from scratch.
And that concludes the whole story.