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Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century

Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century

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Enlarge / Melvinjohn Ashue, vice chairman of the Hoh Tribe, discusses the tribe's use of Starlink broadband. A remote tribe in Washington state is one of the first users of SpaceX's Starlink broadband, having been connected recently after years of struggling to get modern Internet service. "We're very remote," said Melvinjohn Ashue, vice chairman of the…
SpaceX has launched enough satellites for Starlink’s upcoming public beta

SpaceX has launched enough satellites for Starlink’s upcoming public beta

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Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX's Starlink broadband has been available in a limited beta for the past few months, and SpaceX has now launched enough satellites for a public beta that will be available to more customers. However, the newly launched satellites aren't in…
SpaceX Starlink brings Internet to emergency responders in wildfire areas

SpaceX Starlink brings Internet to emergency responders in wildfire areas

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Enlarge / A Starlink user terminal and wildfire-devastated areas seen in images shared by Washington state's Emergency Management Division. SpaceX Starlink is providing Internet access to Washington state emergency responders in areas ravaged by wildfires. The group has deployed seven Starlink user terminals (i.e. satellite dishes) since it began using the service in early August,…
SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up from 1 million

SpaceX now plans for 5 million Starlink customers in US, up...

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Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish.SpaceX SpaceX has asked the US for permission to deploy up to 5 million user terminals for its Starlink satellite-broadband network in the US after nearly 700,000 people in the country registered interest in the service. SpaceX in March received a Federal Communications Commission license for up to…
Elon Musk: Starlink latency will be good enough for competitive gaming

Elon Musk: Starlink latency will be good enough for competitive gaming

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Enlarge / SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, on Monday, March 9, 2020. SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband will have latency low enough to support competitive online gaming and will generally be fast enough that customers won't have to think about Internet speed, Elon Musk said at a conference yesterday.…
SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO for Starlink broadband division

SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO for Starlink broadband division

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Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 29, 2020. SpaceX is likely to spin out its Starlink broadband business, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said today at an investor event. "Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the…
No-fiber zone: FCC funds 25Mbps, data-capped satellite in rural areas

No-fiber zone: FCC funds 25Mbps, data-capped satellite in rural areas

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Enlarge / Viasat-2, a satellite launched by Viasat in 2017. The Federal Communications Commission is giving $87.1 million in rural-broadband funding to satellite operator Viasat to help the company lower prices and raise data caps. The FCC's Connect America Fund generally pays ISPs to expand their networks into rural areas that lack decent home Internet…
Elon Musk sends out tweet through SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband

Elon Musk sends out tweet through SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband

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Enlarge / Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth. SpaceX's Starlink division is on track to offer satellite-broadband service in the United States in mid-2020, a company official said today. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted two tweets that show he's testing the broadband service. "Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite,"…
SpaceX states 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it may release another 30,000

SpaceX states 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it may release another...

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Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX is seeking permission to launch another 30,000 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites for its Starlink broadband network, which would be in addition to the nearly 12,000 satellites the company already has permission to launch. But it's too early in the…
SpaceX looks for FCC OK for 1 million satellite broadband Earth stations

SpaceX looks for FCC OK for 1 million satellite broadband Earth...

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SpaceX is seeking US approval to deploy up to 1 million Earth stations to receive transmissions from its planned satellite broadband constellation. The Federal Communications Commission last year gave SpaceX permission to deploy 11,943 low-Earth orbit satellites for the planned Starlink system. A new application from SpaceX Services, a sister company, asks the FCC for…

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