# More Space Internet: Starlink Lasers (2024-02-02)

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- [Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day | PCMag](https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-laser-system-is-beaming-42-million-gb-of-data-per-day)
  - [SPIE Photonics West: Achieving 99% link uptime on a fleet of 100G space laser inter-satellite links in LEO (Invited Paper)](https://spie.org/photonics-west/presentation/Achieving-99-link-uptime-on-a-fleet-of-100G-space/12877-1)
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> [Cory Doctorow](https://doctorow.medium.com/the-future-is-symmetrical-f31b10b213): “There is no wireless that can substitute for fiber. Wireless — 5G, Starlink, whatever — shares the same spectrum. We can make spectrum use more efficient (by tightly transmitting the wireless signals so they don’t interfere), but physics sets hard limits on wireless speeds.”