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This is a basic connection-level simulator for the SpaceX Starlink network. It simulates routing across a mesh of inter-satellite links and via ground relays. It does not simulator packet-level behaviour, and also ignores the reachability constraints imposed by needing to avoid transmissions too close to the geostationary arc. As a result, RF links are permitted that should not be. Most of the time this is not an issue because shortest path routing ususally chooses low elevation satellites, but for east-west paths near to the equator, the results are unrealistically good.

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This is a basic connection-level simulator for the SpaceX Starlink network. It simulates routing across a mesh of inter-satellite links and via ground relays. It does not simulator packet-level behaviour, and also ignores the reachability constraints imposed by needing to avoid transmissions too close to the geostationary arc. As a result, RF links are permitted that should not be. Most of the time this is not an issue because shortest path routing ususally chooses low elevation satellites, but for east-west paths near to the equator, the results are unrealistically good.