Hacker News with Generative AI: Satellite Communications

New US Space Force jammers aim to disrupt China's SATCOM signals (defensenews.com)
The U.S. Space Force is on track to field its first batch of a new ground-based satellite communications jammer in the coming months — designed to disrupt signals from enemy spacecraft.
A transport protocol's view of Starlink (apnic.net)
Digital communications systems always represent a collection of design tradeoffs. Maximizing one characteristic of a system may impair others, and various communications services may choose to optimize different performance parameters based on the intersection of these design decisions with the physical characteristics of the communications medium.
Apple is buying 20 percent of its iPhone satellite services partner (theverge.com)
Apple is taking a 20 percent stake in its iPhone satellite connectivity partner GlobalStar — a stake worth $400 million — as part of an expansion of its deal with the company.
Starlink as an Alternative to GPS (twitter.com)
T-Mobile Starlink satellite-to-smartphone conducts first emergency alert (t-mobile.com)
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced that it successfully sent and received - for the first time ever in the U.S. - a wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite.
Google Pixel 'Satellite SOS' support may be free for two years (9to5google.com)
Sweden reports Russian jamming against Astra satellites (heise.de)