{"id":108444,"date":"2020-06-09T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/5-trillion-bytes-a-day-spacex-engineers-flash-some-facts-about-starlink-satellites"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:45:26","slug":"5-trillion-bytes-a-day-spacex-engineers-flash-some-facts-about-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/5-trillion-bytes-a-day-spacex-engineers-flash-some-facts-about-starlink-satellites","title":{"rendered":"5 trillion bytes a day: SpaceX engineers flash some facts about Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giQ8xEWjnBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/tag\/starlink\/\" target=\"_top\">Starlink satellite constellation<\/a> is still deep into testing mode, but it\u2019s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on a daily basis and getting software updates on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Those are a couple of the nuggets coming from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/spacex\/comments\/gxb7j1\/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything\/\" target=\"_top\">weekend Reddit \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d session<\/a> featuring SpaceX\u2019s software team.<\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the online chat was SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2020\/spacex-nasa-reset-countdown-second-try-launch-first-crewed-dragon\/\" target=\"_top\">successful mission sending NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station<\/a> in a Crew Dragon capsule \u2014 but one of the team members, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/matt-monson-56378251\/\" target=\"_top\">Matt Monson<\/a>, has moved on from Dragon to take charge of Starlink software development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation is still deep into testing mode, but it\u2019s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on a daily basis and getting software updates on a weekly basis. Those are a couple of the nuggets coming from a weekend Reddit \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d session featuring SpaceX\u2019s software team. The main focus of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}