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maxglute01/20/20250 repliesview on HN

IMO could synergize well for higher end celestia navigation - there are optics sensors for day time tracking, but daylight sensitivity is limitation, perhaps much less so when fixed to starlink. So maybe feasible $$$ hardware can make daylight celestial starlink navigation workable.

Bringing component costs down seems like it would be much more useful for increasing capabilities / proliferating of lower end loitering munitions. You can already pack redundant navigation systems in more expensive platforms that gets them to area of operations. But being able to replace $20,000 inertial navigation system with $200 board + IR camera makes a lot of somewhat cheap smart munitions much smarter, and mitigates a lot of expensive electronics warfare platforms.

Starlink ubiquity does seem to open a lot of indirect strategic applications, i.e. research using starlink transmissions as bi/multistatic illumination source to detect stealth flyers.