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Constellation level aggregated out of band emmission interference is a showstopper for Starlink.

This is due to crazy big leakage in adjacent bands/channels.

So when constellation increase from 300 to 4500 (15x) they need to cut radiated power down to 15%
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There is a term for such a system:

Non-scalable architecture. In technical contexts, this is often referred to as negative scaling or diminishing returns.

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Two. 2.

Major changes to the SCS R&O killed starlink d2c

One is that the proposition of co-primary licenses was changed to SCS being on secondary basis.

Other primary users (read terrestrial MNOs) enjoy total protection.

Starlink can use PCS on a _non_interference basis.

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The other thing was the -120 dBW/m2/MHz interference limit.

Their bad RF equipment with an ACLR around 20 can’t make it.

A single Starlink sat can barely make it.

4500 not so much.

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Beatings will continue until ACLR improves and the democratic lead Commission will enjoy handing out the fascia.

Yes, T-Mobile, this is decimation.

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And so the massive spamming of each new Starlink d2c into adjacent channels they aren’t supposed to emit in forces Starlink to turn down power of every satellite on orbit as they launch more.

It is a _very_ dire situation for Starlink.

They need complete redesign of modem.

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They would most likely need also redesign their _vulnerable_ earth moving cells. Which will cut calls if they keep it.

And they need more directivity and sidelobe control. As they also spam spatially in the physical domain, not just in the frequenzy domain.

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Think of this as scheduling an 8th meeting in one single office day.

With the same people. They stopped listening at the 5th and got frustrated at the 6th. Two called sick on the 7th.

Additional Starlink sats beyond ~1000 are like that 8th meeting:
Destructive.

No reward.

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Aug 11
Quarterly report thread. $ASTS

Excellent initial impression.

August delivery of FM1 !

5 launches before Q1 -26

1.5Bn+ at hand

🧶🐈‍⬛

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Signed two additional early-stage contracts for the U.S. Government end customer, bringing the total to eight contracts to date with the U.S. Government as an end customer.

This is huge.

The rate at which company adds DoD contracts is staggering. It’s not in analyst models.

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Service Rollout: Nationwide intermittent service in the US by end-2025, followed by UK, Japan, and Canada in Q1 2026. Expected revenue: $50-75M in H2 2025 from government and commercial customers. Supports full voice, data, and video at up to 120 Mbps peak speeds per cell.

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May 20
Old and new FM1 Mission overview.

Gone is ”technology pathfinder”

And gone os that it is enhanced ..”to support the higher throughput”.

It’s simply ”.. an enhanced satellite bus (controlsat)”

Now how to do that?

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Meet Aces 1 - 4 a technology pathfinder mission for DARPA Blackjack.

Notice modular design.

Piggy back payload.

Build your own satellite by adding modules.

This was the early vision on how to do golden dome / PWSA type satellites. Image
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Notice how a ”module” goes on top of bus.

It has two parts, antenna and connectivity module with laser links.

They were launched. Lessons learned.

And this concept is a 2017 brain child. As is $ASTS

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Read 14 tweets
Apr 11
🚨STARLINK DRAINS BATTERY 🚨

Why the Starlink 🪫 d2c earth moving cells are a really bad design choice can fill a book.

Carrying around an app that rapidly drains your battery in a disaster scenario isn’t optimal.

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I’d like to focus not on how these rapid-fire beam to beam handovers causes dropped texts. Not on how that type of beams cause more border interference. Etc.

But on battery.

Starlink 🪫 d2c does not like
AST 🔋SpaceMobile fix the beam onto you with adaptive beamforming.

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Starlink 🪫 d2c does just shines their beams down in a static fixed manner and as the satellites traverse the sky you are in a whole set of beams that hand over to eachother,

It does not track you.

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Read 6 tweets
Mar 21
🚨 $ASTS TO LAUNCH SATELLITE 🚨

🐈‍⬛ BREAKING NEWS AFTER CLOSE 🐈‍⬛

AST SPACEMOBILE TRADING ON NASDAQ AS $ASTS FILES NEW STA FILING WITH THE @FCC. ASKS TO LAUNCH HUGE SATELLITE.

ASKS OK BEFORE APRIL 21.

SATELLITE SLATED FOR LAUNCH IN Q2 THIS YEAR. TENTATIVE MAY LAUNCH.

🧶🐈‍⬛

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As we assumed AST uses STA instrument for the first Block 2 satellite.

Which is to be launched by ISRO

The narrative. Link:

.

And snapshots.

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The satellite feature a new formfactor.

Besides the 15.456 x 15.456 m dual use phased array/solar panel sandwich with cut corners we expected. It also has a 30m2 shark fin solar panel orthogonal to the solar panel of the array.

This is to get power more of the time.
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Mar 8
🚨FCC WAIVER IMPLICATIONS🚨

📓DEEPDIVE DD EXPLAINED 👨🏼‍💻

Let’s start:

The way you can differentiate emmissions in space [where] and in time [when] and in strength [how much] you can also differentiate in the frequenzy domain [which channel].

That you transmit in.

🧶🐈‍⬛

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The transmissions are ”good signals” if they’re [when], [where], [as strong] and [which channel] combo that is needed to do the transmission that is sought for.

Another combo is ”a waste”.

But some other combos also do harm.
”Bad signal”

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This is a result showing AST SpaceMobile technology to maximize the signal to which channel it is wanted in (blue) ”good signal” while minimizing it elsewhere, which is adjacent channels. (Green). ”Bad signal”

This is industry excellence.

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Feb 15
🚨SPACEMOBILE $ASTS FULL FCC GRANT FOR 🇺🇸 BLOCK 1 β-TESTS🚨

✅$ASTS REGULATORY READINESS NOW ON PAR WITH STARLINK D2C

✅$ASTS TECHNOLOGICAL READINEDS WAY BETTER,

⏳ WHICH IS ABOUT TO BE SHOWCASED 🎬🎥🍿

🧶🐈‍⬛

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As a ten tweet primer the competition in the form of Starlink regenerative architecture(green👇) is having severe problems with handovers.

As also can be seen AST is a different architecture altogether.

You’ll notice:

One single core.
gNBs (5G)

V/S

Two cores
eNB & gNB

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But it is far from the only differentiator.

Here is a primer to another difference needed as background.

Starlink uses earth moving cells, EMC.

AST SpaceMobile uses earth fixed cells, EFC. Picture hex grids all over the planet each cell having it’s own cell ID.

Fixed.

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