What are the potential uses of this? Is it more about exploring how the user terminal works, or is it about enabling new features somehow on the user terminal?
Starlink emits non-iodizing radiation.
I don't know if starlink has enough power to cause damage - but regardless, there's a good chance this wouldn't be legal as the device isn't certified to broadcast this way and would fall afoul of regulations.
The phasing of the array might also amplify the harmful effect, I'd say. But I'm very much not an RF engineer.
As an example, the latest antennas from Ericsson supports 2000 elements, which allow very narrow beamforming and target tracking (that is phase controlled movement of main beam to track individual phones).
https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2015/3/massive-beamforming-...
The starlink antenna is basically a parabolic antenna that tracks the target using motors to change the angle.
No kidding! I'll never call in to my town's talkshow again. That DJ sucks.
This is how it can tear apart DNA, which would chemically react after impact/ion generation (stripped electrons), and cause cancer.
I was only making a joke - "iodizing" radiation would be radiation that causes something to react with iodine, which no known form of radiation would. The GP meant "ionizing" radiation, which is what you are describing as well.
Now that you mention it, I suppose it's possible for ionizing radiation to cause something to react with iodine, making it "iodizing" radiation as well.
Either way, radio waves are non-ionizing radiation. To the extent that they can create problems in the human body, they will do it by causing heating (like microwaves), not by stripping off electrons to create ions (and certainly not by forcing other molecules to react with iodine).
You could, for example, modify the root filesystem to allow you to ssh into it, or query it with SNMP, or perhaps report a different GPS location to its APIs (instead of the one it's actually at).
I'd personally like my Starlink to use its real GPS for calculating which satellites it needs to talk to, but only report a truncated (or no) location to HQ, so that SpaceX doesn't have my meter-resolution location every time I'm online.
I imagine there are some Ukranian soldiers who feel the same way.
That’s actually what it does by default. Unless specifically activated for debugging reasons, the terminal does not send its lat/lon, so the most they know is what cell you are in (~10km-ish resolution)
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I imagine there are russian soldiers who even more think the same way... Putting the GPS location to be a few miles over in enemy territory would be a good way to make the dish work when it's geofenced.