Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by solarkraft on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:04PM (#27564458)

> Why didn’t SpaceX learn from the rest of the industry instead of having to rediscover it?

Elon Musk famously works by „first principles“, which can indeed be roughly translated to „discover everything yourself“. The advantage is that it gives a clean slate for approaches considered impractical when the books were written.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by HWR_14 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:47AM (#27567479)

> The advantage is that it gives a clean slate for approaches considered impractical when the books were written.

I'm not sure when that has ever worked out like that though. SpaceX built on a lot of existing aerospace knowledge. Tesla went through a lot of manufacturing hell trying to automate what turned out to be pretty unautomatable parts of manufacturing a car. As far as I know, whatever you think of the EV, the car manufacturing process Tesla has isn't uniquely good.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by emteycz on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:19AM (#27568707)

I guess Musk still wanted to find out anyways. His goal isn't merely building cars the simplest way possible. The guy is an educated physicist, he knows how stuff is usually done.

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Re:Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit ... by foobiekr on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:09PM (#27572998)

He has a BS in physics and never worked in the field a day in his life. No one would call someone with merely a BS a “well educated physicist.” This kind of thinking is cult-like attestations of faith.

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