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Skibane
Explorer II
Aug 26, 2022

New smartphone direct-to-Starlink satellite service

Uses customer's existing smartphone and firmware - No hardware or software updates required. Passes signals directly between the smartphone and Starlink satellites - No terrestrial cell towers requ...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Aug 26, 2022
Ed_Gee wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
How the heck are they going to use 1/10 of a watt to transmit to low earth orbit??


Essentially, a new generation of satellites, bigger, more powerful. Read the link in my other post here.


I can understand receiving a signal from a more powerful satellite, but how is 1/10 of a watt going to "reply"?

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