How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥

Branch Education uses 3D animations to explain how Starlink satellites and ground dishes use phased-array beamforming to maintain high-speed internet connections.

Go to brilliant.org/BranchEducation/ to sign up for free and expand your knowledge. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium membership. With Starlink internet, data is continuously being sent between a ground dish and a Starlink satellite orbiting 550km above. Furthermore, the Starlink satellite zooms across the sky at 27,000km/hr! How can the dish and satellite maintain a continuous connection? And then how is data sent back and forth? Well, in this video we're going to dive into the inner workings for the ground dish and Starlink satellites, and see how a beam of data is formed, how this beam is swept across the sky, and then finally what exactly is in that beam that allows for incredibly fast internet! This is an incredible feat of technology and engineering, so stick around! Do you want to support in-depth engineering and technology education? Support us on: patreon.com/brancheducation Website: branch.education On Facebook: facebook.com/BranchEducation/ On Twitter: twitter.com/TeddyTablante On Insta: instagram.com/brancheducation/ Table of Contents: 00:00 - Intro to Starlink 01:00 - Overview of Exploring Starlink 01:46 - Difference between Starlink and Broadcast Satellites 03:28 - Parts Inside a Dishy McFlatface 05:06 - How does an Aperture Couple Patch Antenna Work? 09:13 - Electromagnetic Wave Emission 12:45 - Forming a Beam that Reaches Space: Beamforming 15:22 - Brilliant 16:52 - Steering a Beam to Sweep Across the Sky 18:54 - Starlink: Phase Array Beam Steering 21:11 - Notes on Phased Array Beam Steering 22:24 - Sending Data in a Beam to the Starlink Satellite 23:27 - Innerworkings of 64QAM 26:02 - Actual Size of Starlink Dishy & EM Waves 26:55 - Images from the Starlink Patent 27:49 - Outro Key Branches from this video are: How does Bluetooth Work? Erratum: At 2m50s, the orbits are inaccurate. The TV satellite should be in geostationary orbit moving in the same direction as the Earth. Furthermore, all the Starlink satellites should be orbiting West to East. Credit to Paul S. Script, Modeling, Animation: Teddy Tablante Twitter: @teddytablante Modeling: Prakash Kakadiya Animation: Mike Radjabov Voice Over: Phil Lee Sound Design: www.drilu.mx Sound Effects: Luis Zuleta Sound Effects and Music Editor: David Pinete Sound Effects: Raúl Núñez Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Luis Huesca Animation built using Blender 3.1.2 blender.org/ Post with Adobe Premiere Pro References: Antenna Theory: antenna-theory.com/ Distributed Phase Shifter Array System and Method [Starlink Patent] patents.google.com/patent/US20180241122A1/en).. Elon Musk's Starlink and Satellite Broadband dgtlinfra.com/elon-musk-starlink-and-satellite-broadband/ SpaceX Filings with FCC fcc.report/IBFS/Company/Space-Exploration-Technologies-Corp-… SpaceX Reveals More Starlink Info After Launch of First 60 Satellites ht