[atlas] placing a probe into wireless networks (not terrestrial)

Dear Atlas-ml-followers,

this a summary of a brief discussion I had with Michel Stam during RIPE85.

We believe there might be a great value putting up a public Internet 
monitoring probe (vantage point) into low earth orbit satellite systems, 
such as Starlink.

Monitoring from terrestrial end-points delivers high variances, due to 
frequent sat-changes.

If we could put up an ATLAS-probe (be it SW - which is probably easier 
than HW) into a specific plane, we could add interesting tests and try 
to interpret the values depending on position over specific areas, 
atmospheric influences, solar influences as well as other effects that 
would change signal patterns.

I would be offering support to try to establish such a probe and help to 
setup a project defition.

Any thoughts or feedback to this idea?

Best regards

Kurt Kayser

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