Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating segment-based pre-compensated uplink signals in a non-terrestrial network. A method that may be performed the UE includes transmitting capability information indicating whether the UE needs time gaps between transmission segments associated with uplink signals to be transmitted by the UE in a non-terrestrial network (NTN), obtaining, based at least in part on the capability information, configuration information configuring the time gaps between the transmission segments associated with the uplink signals to be transmitted by the UE, and transmitting the uplink signals in one or more transmission segments based on the configuration information.