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Where did I say I distrusted anything based merely on Elon Musk saying it? I gave a few reasons why what he claimed should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Where did I say I distrusted anything based merely on Elon Musk saying it? I gave a few reasons why what he claimed should be taken with a huge grain of salt. His own history is a pretty strong recommendation in that regard.
Comparing BlueWalker to Starlink v2 makes no sense, unless you think SpaceX is going to be putting that huge phased array on every v2 satellite they put in the sky? It's a different technology entirely.
Now, maybe Elon was hinting at an impending acquisition? :). That would certainly be on character for him.
- modeless 4y agoYou clearly know very little about this. Why are you making statements as if you knew a lot? The Starlink satellites supporting this service will indeed have large phased arrays. Not as large as BlueWalker-3, because BlueWalker-3 is targeting general data service while Starlink is targeting a limited, text-message only service with much less bandwidth (though still a lot more than this Apple thing).
- celsoazevedo 4y ago> unless you think SpaceX is going to be putting that huge phased array on every v2 satellite they put in the sky I'm working from memory here, but that's what they said during the presentation. 5x5 meters, I believe.