SpaceX COO Shotwell Targets 6 Weeks to Next Starship Launch

SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell said We’ll figure out what happened on both stages as well and get back to flight, hopefully in about six weeks, flight four hopefully, beginning part of May. SpaceX’s President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave the opening keynote at the Satellite 2024’s opening session today. Shotwell also said 1. SpaceX’s immediate …

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FCC Lets SpaceX Starlink Use E-Band for Four Times the Bandwidth

The FCC has authorized SpaceX to conduct communications in the 71.0-76.0 GHz (spaceto-Earth) and 81.0-86.0 GHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands (collectively, E-band), with the 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites. Last year, SpaceX said using E-band radio waves for backhaul would enable Starlink Gen 2 to provide about four times more capacity per satellite than earlier iterations. There …

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SpaceX Starlink FCC Filing for Closer, Faster and Better Service

SpaceX second-generation satellites have performed even better than expected so SpaceX has sent a request to the FCC to allow operation at about 350 kilometer instead of 530 kilometers. This would be 68% of the height which would enable 68% latency. This would get latency from 28-35 milliseconds down to 15-20 milliseconds. In 2022, the …

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US Requests Activation of SpaceX Starshield Broadband Over Taiwan

SpaceX is reported to have a Starshield internet service contract with the US military. A congressmen has requested activation of the service over Taiwan from SpaceX. SpaceX and Elon Musk will provide an update by March 8, 2024 on the status of activation and operations. SpaceX says it is in full compliance with all of …

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SpaceX Starlink Direct to Cell Satellite Will Help X Connect to Billions of Users

A post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space. Starlink has over 5000 satellites in orbit. SpaceX will launch 2000-3000 Starlink v2 mini direct to cell capable satellites in 2024 on about 120 launches. On January 2, 2024, SpaceX launched to orbit their first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell …

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Optimus Teslabot and Starlink Mini Will Outclass MacBooks and Smartphones

Two near term future products will be a fantastic combination. The Optimus Teslabot will have a 3 kilowatt hour battery pack which is thirty times more than a 100 watt-hour battery for a Macbook Pro. It would be three hundred times more than smartphone batteries. A new Starlink Mini will be released later in 2024 …

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