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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by cowl on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:05AM (#27558738)
SpaceX is known for using less than ideal products during test phases and working in parallel for the improved/final versions. it depends on what they are trying to test. and in this phase they are trying to test the network and will use the cheapest dishes that can do for this purpose.

I mean they practically used a water tower to test their starship engines. while in parallel they worked for rocket design just to test the first flight/landing and yet in parallel another deisgn for orbital flight tests etc. It seems a waste but this aproach has allowed them to be years ahead of ULA in rocket design. In this case I think they have demonstrated how they work and it's fair to assume that these problems are not engineering miscalculations but deliberate "go with the fastest thing you can test" decisions.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by HWR_14 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:44AM (#27567461)
> SpaceX is known for using less than ideal products during test phases and working in parallel for the improved/final versions

That works for building rockets one at a time. It works less so for mass producing consumer electronics. Lines cost a lot of money to set up, and economies of scale exist.

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