@Los@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years agoExplainer - Missing Titanic submersible: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it?12ft.iomessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkExplainer - Missing Titanic submersible: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it?12ft.io@Los@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squarers5thlinkfedilinkEnglish23•edit-22 years ago It uses Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite technology to communicate, though it is unclear if it was the cause of the loss of contact. Surely this is the surface vessel and not the sub. Starlink communications are around 11 GHz, which can only propagate a couple meters in salt water.
minus-square@burningmatches@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoYeah, there’s very little communication with the sub, just short text messages and sonic pings, both of which have gone silent.
Surely this is the surface vessel and not the sub. Starlink communications are around 11 GHz, which can only propagate a couple meters in salt water.
Yeah, there’s very little communication with the sub, just short text messages and sonic pings, both of which have gone silent.