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Phased array ground stations cost about $10,000-$100,000.

• jeffbee 6y ago
  That's a lot of money. Considering that the company has reversed course on almost every promise it has ever made about Starlink -- orbit altitude, inter-sat networking, service area, cost -- I think it's a good bet that Starlink will ultimately just look like a capital-intensive Iridium-like network without the ability to service mobile stations. I imagine the US military will end up being the main customer.
  • paranoidrobot 6y ago
    > Considering that the company has reversed course on almost every promise it has ever made about Starlink -- orbit altitude, inter-sat networking, service area, cost All of these things are coming, in subsequent revisions of hardware. Everyone on HN should recognise the pattern - it's very much a launch of a minimum viable product.
• gpm 6y ago
  If you're willing to take SpaceX at their word you are off by two orders of magnitude. I don't see why you wouldn't be.
• mooman219 6y ago
  Which is an order of magnitude less than a cell tower.
  • mantap 6y ago
    Presumably that phased array ground station will be attached to a cell tower, it's not like people are gonna connect their phones with Ethernet.
    • mooman219 6y ago
      Still a good comparison to see the relative costs of the components involved.