So the satellite can point a narrow beam. How does it handle multiple connections. Can it aim 1000s of beams at once?

pbmonster a year ago | parent | next [-]

In theory, yes. Phased arrays can steer as many independent beams as the connected electronics support. I real life, it's probably going to be dozens or maybe hundreds of beams.

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kumarvvr a year ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess the narrow beam, covers quite a bit of area on earth.

I guess the "narrow" in the current context is the beam widening to hundreds of miles on earth.

	▲	lutorm a year ago \| parent [-]
		IIRC the current Starlink beams are of order 10 miles on the ground. So much narrower than you guess.