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%
The system can’t scale
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.
4/
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.
7/
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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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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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,
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.
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].
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”