Yes. The cell size is ~20 km On 2/24/23 02:08, David Lang wrote: > they can only narrow the radio beam so much (probably whatever their > cell size is). They can't change the footprint without changing the > antenna, so unless they have the beam move around in the cell, the > footprint should be slightly larger than the cell size > > sometimes there is a lot of data going to one station, but sometims > it's only going to be a trival amount (think ack packets for a lot of > uploads), so they can save airtime by using one timeslot to transmit > to many stations at once. > > David Lang > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Oleg Kutkov via Starlink wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 01:47:05 +0200 >> From: Oleg Kutkov via Starlink >> Reply-To: Oleg Kutkov >> To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net >> Subject: Re: [Starlink] System and method of providing a medium >> access control >>      scheduler >> >> Oh, that's interesting. >> >> >> the satellite broadcasts the downlink radio frame to all the user >> terminals in a group and they each retrieve their respective data >> from the downlink radio frame >> >> I thought the satellite beamformer only sends data frames to the >> appropriate UT. It looks like the given satellite covers the whole >> cell at one TX channel. >> Otherwise, it would be too complex, I guess. >> >> On 2/23/23 23:53, Dave Taht via Starlink wrote: >>> For those of you that don't look at patents, don't look at: >>> >>> https://patents.justia.com/patent/11540301 >>> >>> But I would welcome comment from those that do. >>> >>> H/T virtuallynathan. >>> >> -- Best regards, Oleg Kutkov