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A few pictures here: (old version) https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-spacex-starlink-antenna/ https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-
by Tempest1981 5y ago
A few pictures here: (old version)
https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-spacex-starlink-antenna/ https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/literally-tearing-apart-a-sp...
Inside is a giant 21-inch round-ish circuit board, with 600+ mini antennas on one side, and 600+ driver chips on the other.
These 632 antennas let them do phased-array beam steering, since the satellites are moving (not geo-stationary)
Teardown: https://youtu.be/iOmdQnIlnRo https://youtu.be/iOmdQnIlnRo
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