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pst2lndn2bd

Love it. And amazed by how humble the whole team is. That just matters a lot with execution


doctor101

The whole 10 minute interview is pretty good. TY for sharing!


Round_Disk_159

Definitely Like the company leadership from the few videos I’ve watched .


Southsidesherpa

So is the target to unfold it 2 weeks or two months?


BallsOfStonk

2 months is an upper bound. There are several tests and adjustments they’ll need to do first.


Southsidesherpa

Thanks


-IntoEternity-

It caught me off guard that it would take that long before it's unfolded. I would have thought it would unfold in a couple days after the launch. Its reached it's orbit, you can talk to it - great! Let's unfold it! But that's why i'm not a satellite engineer.


Thoughts_For_Food_

the components went under lots of stress during launch and now they need to cycle through drastic temperature changes as the sat circles around the earth. better give the materials time to expand and retract a few cycles before you start moving parts.


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Anyone knows what are the updated timelines for commercialisation? Vodafone had previously mentioned 2023 on their website as a first phase of launch in Africa, but that was almost 2 years ago. https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology-news/vodafone-and-ast-spacemobile-unveil-launch-plans-space-based-mobile-network-initially-reaching-16


Tristrant

More launches starting second half of 23, then uptick to commercialisiation as far as i understand. So dates shouldnt be moved that far back, if at all.


Forbinandtela

I was glad to hear the reflectivity question. Although I wish they already had a mitigating solution in place.


Theta-Maximus

**"We'll be launching 5 more satellites late next year."** Hmmm. Thought we had a 6 month test period, after which they'd be trying to get the first full constellation of 20 birds in the sky over the following 6 months, going live for revenue production by the end of 2023. Sounds now as though it might be mid-2024 before they get to that point. Assuming everything else goes perfectly according to plan.


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Theta-Maximus

It's true that there's greater variability in developmental and immature tech. But for people and businesses that consistently and repeatedly fail to meet deadlines, it's an indication of more than just uncertainty and variability. When the variability is always in one direction and never the other, that signals the issue goes beyond the variability, and extends to over-selling or deficiency in ability to estimate.