An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The blurb says primarily for navigation.

    So it was using the starlink signals like gps signal and therefore they needed to correlate with the carrier to get a rough time sync.

    I wonder what timing data is freely available on the starlink acquisition signal.