SpaceX Starlink Community Gateway for Gigabit per Second Internet Service

SpaceX’s Starlink has launched a new Community Gateways program to deliver gigabit-speed and even 10 gigabit speed for internet connectivity to remote and underserved areas. It is for internet service providers (ISPs) and cost a $1.25 million upfront cost and $75,000 per month per gigabit per second. Ten gigabits per second would costs $750,000 per …

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SpaceX Launches Starlink Direct to Phone Satellites

Starlink Direct to Cellphone supports about 7 Megabytes per beam and the beams are very big. Starlink v2-Mini satellites have three downlink antennas and one uplink antenna, each capable of eight beams and two polarizations. This means that each satellite has a total of 48 beams down and 16 up. It is unclear how many …

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SpaceX Ground Testing Starlink Satellite Pez Dispenser

Felix Schlang at What About It? and Ringwatchers have photos, diagrams and reporting that SpaceX has built and is ground testing the Starlink satellite pez dispenser system. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. …

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Amazon Bends the Knee to Buy SpaceX Launches for Kuiper Satellites

Amazon bought three rocket launches from SpaceX for itsA Project Kuiper internet satellites, announced on Friday. This is not a drill: Amazon bought SpaceX launches. Amazon's satellite internet network Project Kuiper aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink – and will fly on the latter's rockets to do so. Read more:https://t.co/FipIFAum6l — Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) …

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SpaceX Satellite Domination Continues

SpaceX continues to grow the Starlink satellites in orbit with the deployment of another 23 satellites. NASA Spaceflight reports that SpaceX Starlink has over 5000 active satellites. Deployment of 23 @Starlink satellites confirmed — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 22, 2023 SpaceX Starlink has over 2.1 million customers globally. There are about 92,000 Starlink customers in Australia. …

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