Hello everyone.Elon Musk has announced the launch of 6 Starlink satellites that will work directly with smartphones, and smartphones do not need to buy new ones. How does it work?
On 1/5/24, notmotor
Hello everyone.Elon Musk has announced the launch of 6 Starlink satellites that will work directly with smartphones, and smartphones do not need to buy new ones. How does it work?
They're obviously running 3/4/5G and or WiFi from orbit. Just like all the major spyveillance agencies do. The "Subect: " line is to be used for describing the content of the message body.
This sounds lots of fun to engineer, but if real is certainly not a normal unclassified technology as far as my outdated brain is familiar with. It seems a little rude to not share a research paper or patent or something. The casual implication is simply that normal cell communications can be received from outer space, which yes means that anybody with a satellite can track anybody on earth below them.
On 05/01/2024 20:07, notmotor wrote:
Hello everyone.Elon Musk has announced the launch of 6 Starlink satellites that will work directly with smartphones, and smartphones do not need to buy new ones. How does it work?
Pretty much just a cellphone tower with a phased array antenna, I think. Nothing too absurd or new. There are only 6 of them up as yet, so coverage is minimal - they need 30,000 for global coverage. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spacex-launches-satellites-for-di... shows the antenna. The top six are cellphone sats, the rest are standard Starlink V2 broadband. Peter Fairbrother
My intuition is there would be some powerful denoising software making the signal exist at all up there. websearching, 'altitude of starlink satellites' -> maybe 340 miles 'radius of a cell tower' -> maybe 25 miles 1/R^2 = 185 times weaker a signal so maybe 185 times as much metal in the antennas, or 185 times as smart algorithms, dunno WOW TALKING ABOUT REAL THINGS !
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