Yeah but that's kind of a meaningless description. Unless they literally had 0 planning on how they'd talk to the base station, presumably they tested this to some capacity or had some assumption it would work that was misguided for a specific reason. As is this could vary from "we pointed an AM radio station transmitter at it but it turns out it only listens to 20 GHz unconverted WiFi" to "we needed to adjust the transmit frequency by 1ppm due to vibration during launch shifting our oscillator." One is moronic, the other is a plausible oversight.
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Yeah but that's kind of a meaningless description. Unless they literally had 0 planning on how they'd talk to the base station, presumably they tested this to some capacity or had some assumption it would work that was misguided for a specific reason. As is this could vary from "we pointed an AM radio station transmitter at it but it turns out it only listens to 20 GHz unconverted WiFi" to "we needed to adjust the transmit frequency by 1ppm due to vibration during launch shifting our oscillator." One is moronic, the other is a plausible oversight.