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