{"id":131244,"date":"2025-06-17T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131244"},"modified":"2025-06-17T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:00:07","slug":"chinese-satellite-achieves-5-times-starlink-speed-with-2-watt-laser-from-36000km-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131244","title":{"rendered":"Chinese satellite achieves 5 times Starlink speed with 2-watt laser from 36,000km orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostImagine beaming a HD movie from Shanghai to Los Angeles \u2013 crossing three Pacific widths \u2013 in less than five seconds using just a night light.<br \/>\nThis may sound like fantasy because Starlink, operating just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, maxes out at a couple of Mbps.<br \/>\nBut from a secret satellite parked in stationary orbit more than 60 times higher, a team of Chinese scientists has used a 2-watt laser \u2013 dim as a candle \u2013 to push data through turbulent skies to Earth at 1Gbps, five times faster&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3314087\/chinese-satellite-achieves-five-times-starlink-speed-2-watt-laser-36000km-orbit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostImagine beaming a HD movie from Shanghai to Los Angeles \u2013 crossing three Pacific widths \u2013 in less than five seconds using just a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}