There's a youtube of a teardown of a Starlink dish.[1] A nicely patterned printed circuit board, two servomotors, plastic housing parts and an aluminium foil ba

There's a youtube of a teardown of a Starlink dish.[1] A nicely patterned printed circuit board, two servomotors, plastic housing parts and an aluminium foil back shield. There's not even an ethernet jack on the PCB, just a JST connector for the ethernet cable. First time I've seen that level of cost cutting. Those'd have to be some seriously expensive ICs on that PCB for the bill of materials to come to $1000, let alone $2400. And ICs are like software, printed circuit boards, aluminium foil stampings, and plastic mouldings. The expensive bit is the upfront design. The more you make, the cheaper the unit cost. EDIT: I see mschuster made the same point. --- Totally agree about the regulatory hurdles. Those could be insurmountable, especially (sadly) in countries where people would really benefit from having access to better internet. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmdQnIlnRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmdQnIlnRo