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Starlink uses beam forming. It shouldn't need a gimbal.
by deelowe 4y ago
Starlink uses beam forming. It shouldn't need a gimbal.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThe phased array can probably only do so much and a gimbal might still be needed to compensate for movement outside of what the phased array can handle?
- deelowe 4y agoIt can at least go horizon to horizon now. The satellites aren’t geosynchronous. I generally only have one satellite overhead at a time. They take about 5-10 minutes to fly by.
- madengr 4y agoDoesn't the normal Starlink have an Az-El motor for rough positioning? Beam steering only gets you so far, and the more off-boresight you get, the worse the performance.
- deelowe 4y agoI imagine this has a larger array. The more antennas, the greater the resolution. I’m sure they’ll use the motor for rough positioning but I doubt they’ll add a gimbal. That seems overkill.
- Johnythree 4y agoThe beam steering only operates in one dimension. The dish has to physically rotate and tilt so that the beam steering line coincides with the satellites orbit.
- deelowe 4y agoSeems to work in more than one direction for me. The satellites pass over head in two different directions and the receiver never moves.