You've all been wondering how Elon Musks Starlink will actually work, haven't you!? Well, wonder no more. Here is a video of how the space end of it will work. (7 min)
What about on earth? You'll have a pizza box sized antenna outside somewhere. It's called a phased array antenna. Supposedly if you can see the sky, it will work.
"The company has requested a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to operate up to one million ground terminals, with a flat-panel phased array antenna about one meter wide. "
Here's how it works.
For many more pictures, go HERE.
Here's what one looks like.
The articles in the links explain a lot more.
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2 comments:
This looks very interesting, I will peruse it later!
Very interesting
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