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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by grecy on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:06PM (#23840091)
> Each satellite only has 20gbit/sec per beam of capacity

Can this be upgraded in future versions of the sats? Is it a major undertaking requiring new ground station hardware, or something relatively easy that will increase with each "new" version of the sats?

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Re:Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved by robszumski on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:33PM (#23840561)
I imagine they will scale up the sats to have more beams, better tech, etc. They have a super heavy lift rocket coming online in the years between now and the current batch of sats being retired. What they will be replaced with will likely look nothing like today's model.
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