PARIS —When I worked for NASA in the 1980s, I helped build a Near Space Network tracking program using xBase for the front-end and Datatrieve on VAX/VMS for the backend. When completed, it manually tracked just over a thousand static network links.
That’s nothing — nothing — compared to what Deutsche Telekom is attempting to do is create a high-performance emulation platform for simulating satellite and ground stations: vast, dynamic communication networks such as SpaceX’s Starlink.
This is not easy, as Andreas Florath a Deutsche…
