The blurb says primarily for navigation.
So it was using the starlink signals like gps signal and therefore they needed to correlate with the carrier to get a rough time sync.
I wonder what timing data is freely available on the starlink acquisition signal.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why would they need data then? For GPS you can get a 1metre accurate chip for like 20 bucks and it’s way smaller.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mapping out network topology? Who knows.
Whatever the collected data was, it could have been sent to their satellites for long haul back home.