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So, technically what do you need to use their offering down the road? A satellite dish on the roof? Just a small antenna as built in in most phones today? And

So, technically what do you need to use their offering down the road? A satellite dish on the roof? Just a small antenna as built in in most phones today? And where do I sign up? :-)

mulcahey 7y ago
It’s a “user terminal” about the size of a pizza that can be mounted in a roof. Since it’s a phased array the direction doesn’t matter (unlike a traditional dish for a geostationary satellite). Once they are producing them in volume they should be pretty cheap.
- dingaling 7y ago
  > Since it’s a phased array the direction doesn’t matter Of course it does matter, a phased array isn't magic. A steered antenna will have much better gain when the target is at low elevation, when a fixed phased array will be operating at very oblique angles.
  - mulcahey 7y ago
    What I mean is you don’t have to point a dish within arcseconds to get a connection. You just have to make sure it’s facing upwards. Per the Starlink Wikipedia page: > Instead, it will be linked to flat user terminals the size of a pizza box, which will have phased array antennas and track the satellites. The terminals can be mounted anywhere, as long as they can see the sky