Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said.
they do know when they lost contact, but obviously seem to be unable to reestablish it. Now assuming Musk’s starlink satellites aren’t at fault (which they could tell if that was the case), something must have gone wrong with the submersible’s hardware and that’s not good.
Starlink doesn’t work for submarines. The radio frequency they use can’t penetrate water. The support ship does use it to communicate with the outside world, but the communications link between the ship and the sub has to use entirely different technology.
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they do know when they lost contact, but obviously seem to be unable to reestablish it. Now assuming Musk’s starlink satellites aren’t at fault (which they could tell if that was the case), something must have gone wrong with the submersible’s hardware and that’s not good.
Starlink doesn’t work for submarines. The radio frequency they use can’t penetrate water. The support ship does use it to communicate with the outside world, but the communications link between the ship and the sub has to use entirely different technology.