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This isn't a Starlink/SpaceX scheme. Non-terrestrial networks are being worked into the 3GPP specifications and highlight the same handset difficulties that nee
by mhio 4y ago
This isn't a Starlink/SpaceX scheme. Non-terrestrial networks are being worked into the 3GPP specifications and highlight the same handset difficulties that need to be addressed. It's not the phone currently in your pocket that does this but might be fine on the phone you get in the next few years.
https://www.3gpp.org/news-events/partners-news/2254-ntn_rel17 https://www.3gpp.org/news-events/partners-news/2254-ntn_rel1...
The BlueWalker 3 test satellite from AST should launch in the next couple of months. Looks like a pretty complicated phased array antenna:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50349.msg2351572#msg2351572 https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=50349.msg2...
- assttoasstmgr 4y ago> It's not the phone currently in your pocket that does this but might be fine on the phone you get in the next few years. I don't think anyone's questioning this - yet there's people here rage-posting the ludicrous assertion that the very handset in your pocket right now will work with Starlink unmodified. This is what I have an issue with. More FSD-style overpromising and underdelivering all over again.
- mhio 4y agoThey did go a bit hard on the existing phone's bit, tmobile guy at least used the word "aspiration" when mentioning it. I somehow doubt it, but maybe phone radio implementations are very forward looking on the standards? In any case, late '23 never means '23. So maybe actual useful service in '25-'26 when the network, phones and sats are all ready.