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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:29AM (#26177013)
If it was just knowing where to focus, the terminal could send a low bitrate signal with that information. And/or they could let you punch in new coordinates before you go somewhere.
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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by londons_explore on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:48AM (#26177480)
The satellite doesn't steer towards the user. Steering is too slow and there are too few beams to steer to all users.

Instead the satellite steers towards an arbitrary area on the ground, and the users must be within that area to work.

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Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:53AM (#26177513)
That's why it would break if you leave the active cells entirely. It's not why it would break if you move from one active cell into a different active cell.

And they don't have that many satellites. Each one needs to have a pretty large active area.

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