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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by metrokoi on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:57AM (#23413901)
>The user antennas are likely to be quite expensive at first (several thousand dollars). Cost reduction of the user antennas is the biggest hurdle Starlink currently faces. Nobody knows yet how much SpaceX will charge for the antenna or service.

One of Starlink's competitors OneWeb was able to aquire a user antenna which is apparently a breakthrough in cost reduction at $15 [0]. I would assume the manufacturer has a contractual agreement with OneWeb, but I can imagine that Starlink could develop a similarly priced antenna with it's greater resources.

[0] https://spacenews.com/wyler-claims-breakthrough-in-low-cost-...

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by Hunisgung on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:15AM (#23414011)
> OneWeb was able to aquire a user antenna which is apparently a breakthrough in cost reduction at $15

Greg Wyler, the founder of Oneweb, has a history of making bold claims that are not really supported by facts.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by pilsetnieks on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:22AM (#23415650)
To be fair, so does SpaceX's.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by glenneroo on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:04AM (#23417545)
The difference being that Elon tends to actually follow through on at least some of his bold claims.
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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by shaklee3 on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:11AM (#23425289)
The oneweb antenna was never produced or seen: it was a sound byte from the CEO, and they're now bankrupt.
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