Top
Best
New

Posted by robertjfclarke 8 hours ago

Starlink Mini 2(starlink.com)
284 points | 289 commentspage 3
mrheosuper 57 minutes ago|
In this AI Age, it surprises me that no nerd has hook SDR to the chatbot and Reverse engineer the Starlink, and further, enjoy the free internet.
t1234s 1 hour ago||
I want one of these magic internet rectangles especially now that they have a battery.

Do you know if they offer a sort of pay as you need it plan like when you go out of town you can just buy bandwidth in blocks and use as needed?

arjie 26 minutes ago|
There's a standby functionality at $10/mo that gives you low bandwidth connectivity. There's no bandwidth block mode except for priority which also has a subscription fee.
fedpost 7 hours ago||
Excited to see how the huge cottage industry of people trying to package minis into weapons systems react to this. It looks like it'll be slightly more of a pain in the ass than the previous version but maybe Elon threw the MIC a bone and made them disassemble-able

Yes, this is really a thing, yes, I'm being sarcastic.

datadrivenangel 7 hours ago|
Probably half the goal here is to push those people towards the dedicated starshield offering.
fedpost 6 hours ago||
I don't think SpaceX offers a bare/stripped OEM version at all. Afaik everyone is just using minis which is fucking insane.

Every other tactical comms vendor offers some sort of bare module/modem assembly for system integration, usually just a modded PCB that's inside their existing offerings with a few different JST connectors instead of whatever giant $500 amphenol twist lock they use.

swed420 4 hours ago||
Cool, they hijacked the browser back button. That's a requirement for anybody I do business with.
Epimethus 6 hours ago||
Comrade, what is SKU number for the Ratnik version?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratnik_(program)

fox833 7 hours ago||
I use Starlink on my small boat near shore in PNW - where there is no mobile network, works perfect, DC cable is inconvinience, battery is much more useful imo. Great upgrade
domelian 6 hours ago||
Very soon is going to be top1 present for birthday
kibwen 4 hours ago|
A present that requires an annual subscription somewhere between $600 and $2000? That's not a gift, that's a puppy.
sergiotapia 6 hours ago||
For some reason this page tanks my CPU and slows down my PC to a crawl. On Omarchy/Brave browser.
baoooooooooooo 8 hours ago||
4.5 hours on battery surprised me - cool that it's built in, but yeah these things are power hungry. 25-35W kinda surprised me.

I guess it makes sense, space is a long way away after all...

no-dr-onboard 3 hours ago||
4.5 hours for any terrestrial based satcom solution is insane. At this point, the battery tech alone with these power requirements is stuff that Garmin, Viasat and Honeywell could only dream of obtaining in the same quantities.
lxgr 7 hours ago|||
Distance alone isn’t the real issue (newer Pixel phones can talk to GEO, which is 100 times farther out than Starlink in LEO!), data rate over distance is.
fedpost 6 hours ago|||
It's not inherently because of space, it's because phased array antennas are just very power hungry. Most of the link budget is coming from the satellites huge antenna, the mini has a comparatively tiny aperture
drum55 7 hours ago|||
They have to be able to actively melt snow too, which makes the draw much higher.
lxgr 7 hours ago||
That part is almost certainly optional on the Mini.
sourcecodeplz 7 hours ago|
would be useful if it could also reverse charge your phone
More comments...