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Almost 2x reduction in weight is very impressive.
by wetpaws 5y ago
Almost 2x reduction in weight is very impressive.
- yurishimo 5y agoI wonder if they needed more powerful hardware in v1 due to a lower number of available satellites? Fewer satellites means potentially a further distance to beam the signal to. Now that SpaceX has had a while to roll out more sats, they can use less powerful radios that need less heat dissipation and thus save weight. Pure speculation on my part as I am not a hardware person, but I'd be interested to know!
- nybble41 5y agoIndeed, if they'd reduced the weight by 2x the original weight then they would have succeeded in inventing anti-gravity. The 0.425x (or 42.5%) reduction in weight described in the article is not quite that impressive, but is still quite a respectable achievement.