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It's not trivial, of course. But it's also not okay to pretend that you can sell a device for $500 (which in reality costs $2,300), and skimp on the fundamental
by shaklee3 5y ago
It's not trivial, of course. But it's also not okay to pretend that you can sell a device for $500 (which in reality costs $2,300), and skimp on the fundamental things that everyone else spends money on to ensure these things don't happen. This could have been fixed. It didn't as a cost cutting measure. I don't know why you were talking about V-Band. SpaceX is not using V-Band. They are mostly using low frequency kaband, and we'll be using high frequency soon. This is exactly the same as all other satellite internet providers out there that have solved this problem. They are not special in disregard. They just chose to ignore it.
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- dkbrk 5y agoExisting phased-array antennas cost, at a minimum, tens of thousands of dollars. Getting Starlink Dishy to around $2,000, and I understand it's closer to $1,000 by now, is an incredible engineering achievement. SpaceX didn't accomplish that by overengineering the shit out of it. I do not doubt that now that this problem has cropped up SpaceX will address it. If they don't, if in a couple of years this is still a problem with the system in full operation, then criticism would be justified.
- shaklee3 5y agoThere is no evidence I've seen showing that it's less than $2000. Please send a link to the source.
- dkbrk 5y ago> According to SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, the company has “made great progress on reducing the cost.” Initially, Each dish would cost SpaceX $3,000 USD to manufacture, Shotwell said they reduced the manufacturing cost to around $1,500 USD. https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-dish https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-dish
- shaklee3 5y agoYou mentioned $1000. $1500 is impressive, but is there a follow-up?