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Imagine you’re talking to a time traveler back in 2000: “Oh some good news: America does have end-to-end supply chain for high-value electronics.” “Really?” “Receivers for worldwide geosynchronous satellite-based ISP. Also ours.” “Holy cow.” “Private space industry, naturally.”

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Luke Metro

@luke_metro

Jul 28

someone really needs to do a case study on the Starlink terminal assembly line as the one example of all-American consumer electronics that is actually competitive w/ Asian manufacturers

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Aug 3

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Karl K. Gallagher

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Aug 3

Pedantic correction: Starlink is low earth orbit, not geosynchronous.

Colin Percival

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Aug 3

Not sure how you're defining end-to-end here, but I'm sure some of the chips are not fabbed in the USA.

I'm not sure I understand the definition under which Starlink terminals are competitive? They're vendor-locked. That provides zero useful information about competitiveness of assembly.

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isnt it ironic that while america boasts about its "next-level tech" and private space industry, we still cant solve basic issues like affordable healthcare and education? sure, spacex and starlink are mind-blowing, but what good is reaching for the stars when so many are left

Decidedly not geosynchronous, which allows them to have decent latency. :)

Starlink isn’t GEO. That helps a lot on the link budget, since the range is 1000 km instead of 40,000

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Friendly correction - not geosync (LEO) and not end-to-end supply chain

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@csboyer

Aug 3

The chips in the user terminals themselves are ST Micro (Italian/French) fabed, at least the initial versions.

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Starlink is not geosynchronous - the latency would be horrid. So instead it flies constellations in low Earth orbit.

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