Blogpost does mention Starlink in the context of developing optical transfer technologies. As far as I understand, SpaceX does not offer a service of allowing other satellites to relay data through the Starlink downlink to ground stations.
In any case, that would probably only be a usable solution for stuff in lower orbit than Starlink.
I want to giggle like most everyone else with this comment...
...then I look at what I'm doing at my new job in nuspace (I jumped out of LEDs and LASERs,) and realize I'm one of the people that is tasked with making this some sort of a possibility, without having been explicitly told so.
Faaaaaaaaaaack me. Well, I have a chance to shine if I can talk sense into the right heads.
Oh there will be something up there that they call a datacenter. It doesn't have to actually work for them to point at it and say "the data is up there and therefore is not subject to whatever regional regulation you're hassling me about."
It's a bit like how one guy bought alpaca socks on the silk road and thousands pointed to those socks and said "see, it's not for crime."
In any case, that would probably only be a usable solution for stuff in lower orbit than Starlink.
...then I look at what I'm doing at my new job in nuspace (I jumped out of LEDs and LASERs,) and realize I'm one of the people that is tasked with making this some sort of a possibility, without having been explicitly told so.
Faaaaaaaaaaack me. Well, I have a chance to shine if I can talk sense into the right heads.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
I hope the engineers who weaponize space understanding how destructive that is.
It's a bit like how one guy bought alpaca socks on the silk road and thousands pointed to those socks and said "see, it's not for crime."