That antenna array alone is probably costing them $20 and another $20 of chips on it. I am guessing it is north of $100 to make.
From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:28 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy McFlatface' Antenna! [V What do you estimate it would cost them to manufacture in large quantities? People are probably assuming it’s a $10 item at some point, but it looks expensive to me, even at scale. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:49 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy McFlatface' Antenna! [V Clever motor assembly. Be fun to use that same mechanism for a solar panel. I may have to give that a try. So, it does steer mechanically. Almost has to to maximize the gain. Looks like roughly 2000 patches. Looks like roughly 500 chips feeding them. So a 4 patch array fed by a T/R-LNA - power amp. 4-6 of those clusters fed into a larger chip that probably does the phasing for steering. So the antenna is just a whole lot of simple in a very massive scale. From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 8:24 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy McFlatface' Antenna! [V https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-teardown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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