[Ground-station] Starling manufacturing?

[Bruce Perens]

SpaceX does a lot of its own manufacturing. User terminals are a new market
to them, but they have so far built the vehicles to a much greater extent
in-house than others. We saw this to some extent with Scaled Composites
simply because of the intolerable mark-up on space-qualified parts (the $35
screw, etc.), but SpaceX has taken it *much *farther. I would suspect that
they would entirely design the terminal in-house and then have it
manufactured under their control.

In this case they have competition from 3 large companies, including
Amazon, and will be holding their technology close.

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:04 AM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> F4DAV (via Twitter) inquires:
>
> “According to FCC filings, @SpaceX Starlink "pizza box" phased array user
> terminals could have 30.6 - 33.2 dBi RX gain at 10.7 - 12.7 GHz. Do we know
> who is manufacturing them ? Would be perfect for a mobile or auto-pointing
> QO-100 station ?”
>
>
> Haven’t read the filing yet. I’m on the road today. Anyone have some time
> to take a crack at it for things we can use, please report.
>
>
> More soon! Breakthrough Listen welcome event tonight,
>
>
> -mdt
> --
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
> "Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."
>
>
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